{"id":156,"date":"2006-12-23T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2006-12-23T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T13:27:00","slug":"strange-christmas-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2006\/12\/strange-christmas-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Christmas experiences&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lostintv.com\/millionaire\/logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 270px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostintv.com\/millionaire\/logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span class=\"dropcaps\">T<\/span>wo years ago I was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Michael Aspel<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Carol Smillie<\/span>&#8216;s phone-a-friend on the UK Xmas special of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Who Wants To Be A Millionaire<\/span>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>  I&#8217;ve never met them&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>  I got the answer right&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>  I kind of knew they&#8217;d be calling&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Weird, eh?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Postscript:<\/span> They only won a grand, after going for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Will Self<\/span> as author of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Rachel Papers<\/span> at \u00a332k. It was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Martin Amis<\/span>, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago I was Michael Aspel and Carol Smillie&#8216;s phone-a-friend on the UK Xmas special of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: I&#8217;ve never met them&#8230; I got the answer right&#8230; I kind of knew they&#8217;d be calling&#8230; Weird, eh? Postscript: They only won a grand, after going for Will Self as author of [&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":[81,5],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-news","tag-uk-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}