{"id":804,"date":"2003-11-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/great-people\/"},"modified":"2003-11-27T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-27T21:00:00","slug":"great-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/great-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Great People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to see that even in the smallest, most insignificant, places, there are still great people to be found. Here are a few that have been in our house, via various media, in the past  couple of hours:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Margaret Cho<\/li>\n<li>Ben Zephaniah &#8211; for everything he&#8217;s ever said and done &#8211; especially turning down an OBE<\/li>\n<li>Yasmin Alibhai-Brown &#8211; for telling national television that Ben Zephaniah&#8217;s refusal to accept his OBE made her feel guilty for accepting her MBE.<\/li>\n<li>Tony Benn &#8211; ever watched him go up against Ali G ? I know it&#8217;s not very important, but it does demonstrate how committed he is to his ideals<\/li>\n<li>John Humphreys and Jim Naughtie &#8211; for being able to make minced-meat out of the most determined jaded political scumbag.<\/li>\n<li>Mark Thomas and Mark Steel &#8211; for remaining funny, clever and righteous for at least all the years that I&#8217;ve known you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s nice to see that even in the smallest, most insignificant, places, there are still great people to be found. Here are a few that have been in our house, via various media, in the past couple of hours: Margaret Cho Ben Zephaniah &#8211; for everything he&#8217;s ever said and done &#8211; especially turning down [&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-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}