{"id":1194,"date":"2005-08-01T17:33:26","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T17:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/08\/harold_evans\/"},"modified":"2005-08-01T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T17:33:26","slug":"harold_evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/harold_evans\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold Evans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never purposefully set out to listen to Alistair Cooke read his Letter From America, although as a sometime Radio 4 listener I heard plenty of them, if less so in recent years.<br \/>\nThe BBC are &#8220;sort of&#8221; replacing him with Harold Evans, another British journalist of long standing who now resides on the other side of the Atlantic. His first contribution can be found <A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4734949.stm\">here<\/A>, and makes for a worthwhile read. I&#8217;m not completely sure I agree with him 100% but then again, I don&#8217;t live there.<br \/>\nBut I think that Rasha from Cairo (second comment down), has a very fair point when noting the lack of numerical mnemonic to remember the Egyptian attack last month. I completely agree, and positively <I>loathe<\/I> the way it was immediately tagged <I>7\/7<\/I>. Hands up anyone who can remember the date of the Omagh bomb? No? Didn&#8217;t get the whole date thing did it.<br \/>\nIt just seems thoroughly insensitive to other country&#8217;s tragedies that we somehow elevate ours above theirs? I suppose floods in India or famines in Niger don&#8217;t get neat days for the nomenclature because they happen over days, months or years, and aren&#8217;t the effects of terrorism. The fact that the scale is as large, if not larger than Sept 11 is neither here nor there.<br \/>\nIn any case, I&#8217;m pedantically against calling Sept 11 &#8220;9\/11&#8221; since events didn&#8217;t take place in November. (I&#8217;m with <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000DG5MS\">Eddie Izzard<\/A> on this one).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never purposefully set out to listen to Alistair Cooke read his Letter From America, although as a sometime Radio 4 listener I heard plenty of them, if less so in recent years. The BBC are &#8220;sort of&#8221; replacing him with Harold Evans, another British journalist of long standing who now resides on the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}