{"id":257,"date":"2005-04-30T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-30T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/04\/the-dave-bones-chat\/"},"modified":"2005-04-30T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-30T14:42:00","slug":"the-dave-bones-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/04\/the-dave-bones-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dave Bones Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/daveyelow.jpg\" width=200 align=left>One of the fabulous things about covering politics for a month is that you get to hook up people you know but have never actually seen in the flesh. I met my third blogger on Tuesday &#8211; Dave Bones &#8211;  he was at the same Robin Cook meeting. We went for a pint and chat afterwards, talked about UK Politics, Blair, Howard, Galloway, and the future of Independent Media. I had my old fashioned audio cassette recorder with me and grabbed 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>What an intelligent and switched on guy he turned out to be. I was really taken with his attitude &#8211; when the Iraq war started, he got online and befriended Republicans. Now you can&#8217;t say that a lot of lefties would do that.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a lot less yellow in real life.<\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=1><a HREF=\"http:\/\/five.org\/podcast\/ukelection05\/malung-chat.26.4.05.mp3\">Listen to the audio here (8MB).<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fabulous things about covering politics for a month is that you get to hook up people you know but have never actually seen in the flesh. I met my third blogger on Tuesday &#8211; Dave Bones &#8211; he was at the same Robin Cook meeting. We went for a pint and chat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}