{"id":1308,"date":"2008-09-09T21:30:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2008-09-09T21:35:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T20:35:17","slug":"the-only-living-anglican-in-baghdad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/09\/the-only-living-anglican-in-baghdad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Living Anglican In Baghdad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">R<\/span>adio can &#8211; occasionally &#8211; be very special. Trust me. This really is worth half an hour of your time. It&#8217;s <strong>Michael Buerk<\/strong> interviewing the only Anglican priest in Baghdad, <strong>Canon Andrew White<\/strong> &#8211; well, the only one not wearing dog tags with his dog collar. <\/p>\n<p>White is grappling with the later stages of MS, so his voice sounds like you would after a couple of stiff gin and tonics.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. He&#8217;s no stranger to publicity. And quite probably a pain in the arse. And quite probably hard on his loved ones. A bit like some foreign correspondents of my acquaintance, except with added God. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s an extraordinary and special interview. And I like difficult people. (God knows, I might even be one.) <\/p>\n<p>Pour yourself a glass of something and listen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00d9l4b\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio can &#8211; occasionally &#8211; be very special. Trust me. This really is worth half an hour of your time. It&#8217;s Michael Buerk interviewing the only Anglican priest in Baghdad, Canon Andrew White &#8211; well, the only one not wearing dog tags with his dog collar. White is grappling with the later stages of MS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1796,1513,1656,1797],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-andrew-white","tag-baghdad","tag-bbc-radio","tag-michael-buerk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}