{"id":1671,"date":"2015-10-19T10:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T10:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2015-10-19T10:25:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T10:25:33","slug":"home-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/2015\/10\/19\/home-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"HOME THOUGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done my talk all over the place (from Kirkcaldy to Canterbury, from Carlisle to Cardiff, from Dublin to Guernsey) but never in my home town of Whitley Bay &#8211; until last week (Wednesday October 14th) at the brand new library. It was great to see friends and family there. A couple of school pals I&#8217;d not seen since&#8230;.well, for a long time! But best of all was seeing Mr Turnbull my amazing drama teacher. He told me that he never forgot my &#8216;enthusiasm&#8217; for acting when I was a schoolboy. And he added: &#8216;I am glad to see that enthusiasm is there still&#8221;. So touching. A great crowd had turned up too. It was like an audiobook version of This is your Life!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve done my talk all over the place (from Kirkcaldy to Canterbury, from Carlisle to Cardiff, from Dublin to Guernsey) but never in my home town of Whitley Bay &#8211; until last week (Wednesday October 14th) at the brand new library. It was great to see friends and family there. A couple of school pals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordongriffin.com\/ggnewsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}