{"id":147,"date":"2004-10-30T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T12:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2004-10-30T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T12:26:01","slug":"home-truths-john-peel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Home Truths &amp; John Peel"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Before we start, I need to talk to you about David Essex&nbsp;and breasts&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>So began one of the many editions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/hometruths\/\">Home Truths<\/a>&nbsp;I have enjoyed over the last six or so years.&nbsp; Of all the mornings to sleep in and miss the show, today with it&#8217;s tribute to John Peel, was not the day to pick.&nbsp; Luckily, the BBC&#8217;s Listen Again website provides for muppets like me by providing streamed playbacks for several days after broadcast.&nbsp; I have just listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/aod\/radio4_aod.shtml?hometruths\">today&#8217;s show<\/a>, which was&nbsp;presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogermcgough.org.uk\/\">Roger McGough<\/a>, and was comprised of just a small sample of the many stories the show has covered.&nbsp; All of which served as a fitting tribute to a man who has brought both <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/spl\/hi\/picture_gallery\/04\/entertainment_the_john_peel_hit_list\/html\/1.stm\">cutting edge music<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/hometruths\/20041016_anglo_german_exchange2.shtml\">personal oral testimony<\/a> to the radio listeners for over 35 years.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><font size=\"1\">my lo-fi ears are sadly not listening to John Peel<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/john_peel2_careofbbc.jpg\" align=\"bottom\" border=\"0\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Before we start, I need to talk to you about David Essex&nbsp;and breasts&#8230;&#8221; So began one of the many editions of Home Truths&nbsp;I have enjoyed over the last six or so years.&nbsp; Of all the mornings to sleep in and miss the show, today with it&#8217;s tribute to John Peel, was not the day to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}