{"id":281,"date":"2003-05-19T21:27:20","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T21:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/05\/the_essential_s\/"},"modified":"2003-05-19T21:27:20","modified_gmt":"2003-05-19T21:27:20","slug":"the_essential_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/the_essential_s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Spike Milligan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0007155115\">this<\/a> at work, and was really only reading it, as I had no other books to hand and wanted something to read. I fairly raced through it, but must admit that I skipped entire extracts.<br \/>\nI suppose that I&#8217;ve never really <i>got<\/i> The Goons, so complete scripts of various episodes make fairly hard reading.<br \/>\nWhat were excellent were the war memoirs and nonsense verse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this at work, and was really only reading it, as I had no other books to hand and wanted something to read. I fairly raced through it, but must admit that I skipped entire extracts. I suppose that I&#8217;ve never really got The Goons, so complete scripts of various episodes make fairly hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}