{"id":1122,"date":"2006-03-22T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2006-03-22T17:36:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T22:36:12","slug":"bbc-tv-and-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/bbc-tv-and-wall-street-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC-TV and Wall Street Journal on Blooker and Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulublookerprize.com\/\">Blooker<\/a> madness continues. After a morning at the doctor, I met up with the two person BBC-TV crew from DC and Stephen Fraser of lulu. We spent about 2 hours shooting in Carroll Hall&#8217;s Halls of Fame room. I got to be sitting in Charles Kuralt&#8217;s chair during at least part of it. Rozalia Hristova interviewed me about Blooks and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulublookerprize.com\/\">the Blooker<\/a>. Stephen ran out and got a copy of the Blooker overall winner (I can&#8217;t tell you what that is yet) as the show, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/ten\/default.stm\">News at 10<\/a>, will run on or after the April 3rd Blooker winner announcement.<br \/>\nAfterwards, we all went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonshomecookin.com\/\">Bon&#8217;s Country Cookin&#8217;<\/a> where we introduced the BBCers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonshomecookin.com\/menu.html#sides\">fried okra, fried green tomatoes, meatloaf, and hushpuppies.<\/a><br \/>\nDuring lunch, I had to walk off and take a call from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebway.org\/ian\/ianclips.htm\">Ian Mount<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/us\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>. Also about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulublookerprize.com\/\">Blooker<\/a>. Ian is down in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buenos_Aires\">Buenos Aires<\/a> where they have no Wall Street. Ian&#8217;s article will run this upcoming Saturday.<br \/>\nI am trying not to get a standard Blooker rap, but it&#8217;s becoming unavoidable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blooker madness continues. After a morning at the doctor, I met up with the two person BBC-TV crew from DC and Stephen Fraser of lulu. We spent about 2 hours shooting in Carroll Hall&#8217;s Halls of Fame room. I got to be sitting in Charles Kuralt&#8217;s chair during at least part of it. Rozalia Hristova [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","category-literature","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","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=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}