{"id":2343,"date":"2008-09-04T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2008\/09\/various_bits_an\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T18:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T18:02:00","slug":"various_bits_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/various_bits_an\/","title":{"rendered":"Various Bits and Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve always liked DJ Andy Kershaw, so it&#8217;s tragic to read about his recent problems with both the law and his broken relationship in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/andy-kershaw-the-year-my-life-fell-apart-917948.html\">an interview in today&#8217;s Independent<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m exactly in tears at the news that Wippit has <a href=\"http:\/\/distorted-loop.com\/2008\/09\/03\/uk-digital-media-service-wippit-shuts-shop\/\">shut down<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002290.html\">Just ask<\/a> Danny Baker what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/media\/five-alive-danny-baker-returns-to-national-radio-914400.html\">he thinks<\/a> about them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/albionlondon.typepad.com\/log\/2008\/09\/absolutely-no-p.html\">Albion has blogged<\/a> about the re-branding of Virgin Radio as Absolute Radio. Worth a read. You&#8217;re already reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegoldensquare.com\">Onegoldensquare<\/a> right?\n<li>I don&#8217;t quite understand why the Inland Revenue&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.direct.gov.uk\/doesitworkforyou\">Working Tax Credit<\/a> radio ad employs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhysthomaswebsite.co.uk\/\">Rhys Thomas<\/a> playing essentially his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/presenters\/gary_bellamy.shtml\">Gary Bellamy<\/a>&#8211; DJ character from the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/comedy\/downtheline.shtml\">Down The Line<\/a>. We&#8217;re supposed to be taking it seriously, so having the faux naif Bellamy asking the questions to determine your eligibility for the credit misses the point a little. Have a listen below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/audio\/player_mp3_maxi.swf\" width=\"200\" height=\"20\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"player_mp3_maxi.swf\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ff0000\" \/><param name=\"showvolume\" value=\"1\" \/><param name=\"showloading\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/audio\/taxcredit.mp3\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked DJ Andy Kershaw, so it&#8217;s tragic to read about his recent problems with both the law and his broken relationship in an interview in today&#8217;s Independent. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m exactly in tears at the news that Wippit has shut down. Just ask Danny Baker what he thinks about them. Albion has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343"}],"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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}