{"id":646,"date":"2005-07-15T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/15\/112145226478031364\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T16:59:16","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T16:59:16","slug":"titchmarsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/titchmarsh\/","title":{"rendered":"Titchmarsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>Look, I know that the BBC Charter renewal thing&#8217;s coming up and so they&#8217;ve got to give concessions to our philistine government by dumbing down &#8211; sorry &#8211; making accessible cultural output, but why in hell&#8217;s name have they got Alan sodding Titchmarsh in to present the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/proms\/\">Proms<\/a>? He&#8217;s a gardener for Christ&#8217;s sake! He knows less about classical music than I do &#8211; and that&#8217;s saying something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Still, if you want some top-notch music over the next couple of months, you could do a lot worse than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/proms\/listen\/\">going here and listening live on BBC Radio 3<\/a>. Nine weeks of superb music played by some of the best artists in the world at the click of a button. And they say the license fee&#8217;s a waste of money&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Oh for fuck&#8217;s sake &#8211; now he&#8217;s interviewing Michelle cunting Collins, former soap opera &#8220;star&#8221; and gossip rag regular. That&#8217;s it. I&#8217;m off down the pub&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, I know that the BBC Charter renewal thing&#8217;s coming up and so they&#8217;ve got to give concessions to our philistine government by dumbing down &#8211; sorry &#8211; making accessible cultural output, but why in hell&#8217;s name have they got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/titchmarsh\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}