{"id":306,"date":"2005-06-27T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/06\/richard-whiteley-rip\/"},"modified":"2005-06-27T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T06:36:00","slug":"richard-whiteley-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2005\/06\/richard-whiteley-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Whiteley, R.I.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/40629000\/jpg\/_40629594_richard.jpg\" align=left>Richard &#8220;Twice Nightly&#8221; Whiteley, OBE, <a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/4102712.stm\" target=_blank>died yesterday.<\/a> He presented <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thecountdownpage.com\/\" target=_blank>the long-running program<\/a> that my Mum never misses. He had 500 ties. He was famously savaged by a ferret. He had TV stamina. He died from pneumonia aged 61.<\/p>\n<p>Like Richard, I have a huge collection of ties (which I never wear) and I used to feed my brother&#8217;s ferrets (which he never wore). Without Richard, the word &#8220;avuncular&#8221; will never be the same. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have a consonant, two vowels, and a consonant, please Carol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard &#8220;Twice Nightly&#8221; Whiteley, OBE, died yesterday. He presented the long-running program that my Mum never misses. He had 500 ties. He was famously savaged by a ferret. He had TV stamina. He died from pneumonia aged 61. Like Richard, I have a huge collection of ties (which I never wear) and I used to [&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-306","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\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}