{"id":35815,"date":"2020-02-28T13:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=35815"},"modified":"2020-02-28T13:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:07:47","slug":"reminiscence-on-the-radio-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=35815","title":{"rendered":"Reminiscence on The Radio &#8211; 1955"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Freminiscence-on-the-radio-1955%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets was the best-selling record around the world in 1955.\u00a0 It was also the year that Bob Laird visited New Ross to celebrate his 5<sup>th<\/sup> birthday while JFK and his wife Jackie visited Dublin. Maria Mahony started school in 1955 and got a wallop from a nun for saying she was named after Maria Goretti\u2026 School days weren\u2019t so much fun back in the 1950s it seems. Maria recites \u2018If I were a Lady\u2019 by Percy French, coincidentally Bob organised a Percy French 100<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Anniversary Gathering in Skerries last summer.\u00a0 Small World.<\/p>\n<p><em>Broadcast: 24\/02\/2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets was the best-selling record around the world in 1955.\u00a0 It was also the year that Bob Laird visited New Ross to celebrate his 5th birthday while JFK and his wife Jackie visited Dublin. Maria Mahony started school in 1955 and got a wallop from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[17460,17459,8451,17458],"class_list":["post-35815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-17460","tag-bob-laird","tag-karen-meenan","tag-maria-mahony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35818,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35815\/revisions\/35818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}