{"id":42,"date":"2006-09-02T02:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2006-09-02T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T08:12:00","slug":"things-to-bb-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Things to BB-See"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2388\/2299\/1600\/bbc_logo.0.jpg\"><img  src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/2388\/2299\/200\/bbc_logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Another day, another eight hundred interviews. A lot of the day was devoted to radio interviews, which I especially like. Many were with BBC radio affiliates. <\/p>\n<p>Now back in London, I am getting educated on more English slang: a &#8220;Diet Coke&#8221; can also be called a &#8220;Skinny Coke.&#8221; You can guess what a &#8220;Fat Coke&#8221; is. I am also amassing a list of &#8220;Must See&#8221; British movies and TV, courtesy of Ben. He&#8217;s told me about &#8220;<a href=http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0094336\/>Withnail &#038; I<\/a>,&#8221; which rivals &#8220;Spinal Tap&#8221; as a quotable college kid&#8217;s movie here&#8230; then there is the iconic TV character &#8220;Allan Partridge,&#8221; played by <a href=http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0176869\/>Steve Coogan<\/a>&#8230; a series about a TV anchor demoted to a small-time radio talk show. These both sound like ancestors of the BBC&#8217;s almighty &#8220;Office&#8221; starring the almighty <a href=http:\/\/www.rickygervais.com\/index.php>Gervais<\/a>. And I&#8217;ve been told to have respect for ancestors, so I&#8217;m going to check these out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another eight hundred interviews. A lot of the day was devoted to radio interviews, which I especially like. Many were with BBC radio affiliates. Now back in London, I am getting educated on more English slang: a &#8220;Diet Coke&#8221; can also be called a &#8220;Skinny Coke.&#8221; You can guess what a &#8220;Fat Coke&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coryedwards.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}