{"id":1121,"date":"2006-03-21T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2006-03-21T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T21:22:24","slug":"jones-on-bbc-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/jones-on-bbc-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones on BBC-TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.northcarolinatravels.com\/food\/barbecue\/ncbarbecue2.jpg\" alt=\"Allen and Son\" align=right \/><br \/>\nIs there no end to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulublookerprize.com\/\">Blooker<\/a> madness? Yes, on April 3 when we announce the winners. In the meantime, BBC-TV has picked up from the BBC Radio Five lead and is flying a crew down to interview me, in my role as judge, tomorrow.<br \/>\nThe question is where to do the interview. In the lovely SILS Library? Outside if the weather holds? Or at Allen and Son BBQ? I&#8217;m leaning toward the last.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Bowers suggests <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jomc.unc.edu\/jomcataglance\/facilities\/center.html\">the Kuralt Learning Center<\/a>, a great place. But the BBC-TV want &#8212; get this &#8212; my office  &#8220;<em>probably with the<br \/>\nblinds shut (for what the producer describes as a &#8220;cyberspace feel&#8221;).&#8221;<\/em> This is why the French and Italians are known for high fashion and the Brits for bowlers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there no end to Blooker madness? Yes, on April 3 when we announce the winners. In the meantime, BBC-TV has picked up from the BBC Radio Five lead and is flying a crew down to interview me, in my role as judge, tomorrow. The question is where to do the interview. In the lovely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-literature","category-virtual-communities","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}