{"id":37083,"date":"2020-07-29T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=37083"},"modified":"2020-07-29T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T15:18:09","slug":"reminiscence-on-the-radio-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=37083","title":{"rendered":"Reminiscence on the Radio: 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1961 was the year that Telef\u00eds \u00c9ireann was launched \u2013 31 December live from the Gresham Hotel.  John Doyle, a veteran of Near FM was in O\u2019Connell Street that night and remembers walking home and hearing the Number One Army Band.  Ann Brophy, the eldest of eleven children, remembers getting a very special bear for Christmas that year.  \u2018Sukiyaki\u2019 was a global hit and made history by being the first song beamed by radio into space by NASA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&#038;feed=%2Fnearfm%2F1961%2F\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1961 was the year that Telef\u00eds \u00c9ireann was launched \u2013 31 December live from the Gresham Hotel. John Doyle, a veteran of Near FM was in O\u2019Connell Street that night and remembers walking home and hearing the Number One Army Band. Ann Brophy, the eldest of eleven children, remembers getting a very special bear for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[18223,18222,18221,8451],"class_list":["post-37083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-18223","tag-ann-brophy","tag-john-doyle","tag-karen-meenan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083","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=37083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37085,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083\/revisions\/37085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}