{"id":128,"date":"2005-02-01T01:18:09","date_gmt":"2005-02-01T05:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/02\/01\/mr-bloody-africa\/"},"modified":"2008-03-30T21:18:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T01:18:36","slug":"mr-bloody-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/01\/mr-bloody-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Bloody Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have nothing but respect for Bob Geldof. &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/fiver1971\/diamond.htm\">Diamond Smiles<\/a>&#8216; is definitely one of my all-time favourite songs. &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fannins-collectables.com\/images\/b_listing\/boomtown_rats\/the_fine_art_of_surfacing\/lun038super_fc-fs.jpg\">The Fine Art of Surfacing<\/a>&#8216; is one of the best album titles ever. And &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000006YY9\">The Vegetarians of Love<\/a>&#8216; is one of the most-played discs in my collection. Hell, I even read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0345351975\">his autiobiography<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t read biographies. And that&#8217;s not even talking about his playing the role of Pink.<\/p>\n<p>So, you can assume I am, if anything, biased in a Pro-Bob way.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, take a look at the photo in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/music\/4222373.stm\">this BBC article<\/a> and tell me he doesn&#8217;t look like he&#8217;s about 10 minutes away from coffin-shopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">So, I have nothing but respect for Bob Geldof. &#8216;Diamond Smiles&#8216; is definitely one of my all-time favourite songs. &#8216;The Fine Art of Surfacing&#8216; is one of the best album titles ever. And &#8216;The Vegetarians of Love&#8216; is one of the most-played discs in my collection. Hell, I even read his autiobiography, and I don&#8217;t read biographies. And that&#8217;s not&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/01\/mr-bloody-africa\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-24","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}