{"id":41,"date":"2012-02-25T01:08:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/driven\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T01:08:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:08:26","slug":"driven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/driven\/","title":{"rendered":"Driven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/24\/147037460\/25-years-later-the-singing-detective-still-shines\" title=\"25 Years Later, The Singing Detective Still Shine\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"media\/Singing_Detective_Poster.jpg\" class=\"illustration\" width=\"168\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\"><\/a>NPR fund-drives often contain numerous allusions to &#8220;driveway moments&#8221;; times when whatever is playing on the car-radio is interesting enough to keep the occupants confined for several minutes after the car has reached the driveway. Together with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\" title=\"BBC Radio 4\">Radio 4<\/a>, NPR pulls this trick off on a regular basis &#8211; for example this evening: a segment on the peerless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/fresh-air\/\">Fresh Air<\/a> that reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/24\/147037460\/25-years-later-the-singing-detective-still-shines\" title=\"25 Years Later, The Singing Detective Still Shine\">The Singing Detective, 25 years after it was first broadcast on UK TV<\/a>. The reviewer is palpably thrilled by this series, as he should be. If you&#8217;ve never heard of Dennis Potter or The Singing Detective then please seek it out. If you like it then you may want to watch this: perhaps the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PKErIO3HqHo\" title=\"Dennis Potter's Last Interview\">profound, moving and inspirational piece of television<\/a> I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s the last TV interview given by Dennis Potter soon before he died.<br \/>\nIn a nutshell &#8211; Dennis Potter was the man. He named his cancer &#8220;Rupert&#8221; after Rupert Murdoch, and he made some extraordinarily good films.<br \/>\nHearing an American film reviewer acknowledging Potter as the genius he was makes me very happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR fund-drives often contain numerous allusions to &#8220;driveway moments&#8221;; times when whatever is playing on the car-radio is interesting enough to keep the occupants confined for several minutes after the car has reached the driveway. Together with Radio 4, NPR pulls this trick off on a regular basis &#8211; for example this evening: a segment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}