{"id":36081,"date":"2020-03-18T14:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=36081"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:44:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T14:44:46","slug":"reminiscence-on-the-radio-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=36081","title":{"rendered":"Reminiscence on the Radio: 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Freminiscenceontheradio-1953%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>1953 was the year Guy Mitchell had everyone singing \u2018She Wears Red Feathers and a Hula Hula Skirt\u2019\u2026\u00a0 it was also the year that Facebook crooner Eddie Peppard went to England to find work, he had lived in a tenement in North King Street.\u00a0 Dympna Murphy, a member of no less than three choirs, recited two poems written by her daughter Lorraine Murphy, a nurse in England.\u00a0 From Here to Eternity was voted Best Film that year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1953-Frank-Meenan-Eddie-Peppard-Dympna-Murphy-and-Karen-Meenan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36082\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1953-Frank-Meenan-Eddie-Peppard-Dympna-Murphy-and-Karen-Meenan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1953-Frank-Meenan-Eddie-Peppard-Dympna-Murphy-and-Karen-Meenan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1953-Frank-Meenan-Eddie-Peppard-Dympna-Murphy-and-Karen-Meenan-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1953-Frank-Meenan-Eddie-Peppard-Dympna-Murphy-and-Karen-Meenan-90x67.jpg 90w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1953-Frank-Meenan-Eddie-Peppard-Dympna-Murphy-and-Karen-Meenan-370x277.jpg 370w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1953-Frank-Meenan-Eddie-Peppard-Dympna-Murphy-and-Karen-Meenan-590x442.jpg 590w, https:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1953-Frank-Meenan-Eddie-Peppard-Dympna-Murphy-and-Karen-Meenan.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u00a0Frank Meenan, Eddie Peppard, Dympna Murphy and Karen Meenan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1953 was the year Guy Mitchell had everyone singing \u2018She Wears Red Feathers and a Hula Hula Skirt\u2019\u2026\u00a0 it was also the year that Facebook crooner Eddie Peppard went to England to find work, he had lived in a tenement in North King Street.\u00a0 Dympna Murphy, a member of no less than three choirs, recited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16721,17645,7404,17644,17643,17647,8451,11369,17646],"class_list":["post-36081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listenagain","tag-reminiscence-on-the-radio","tag-17645","tag-dympna-murphy","tag-eddie-peppard","tag-frank-meenan","tag-guy-mitchell","tag-karen-meenan","tag-tenements","tag-she-wears-red-feathers-and-a-hula-hula-skirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36081","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=36081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36083,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36081\/revisions\/36083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}