{"id":5921,"date":"2006-01-08T20:44:05","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2006-01-08T20:44:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T20:44:05","slug":"lord-stratford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/01\/08\/lord-stratford\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord Stratford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"BBC News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4591570.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Banks<\/a>, RIP.<\/p>\n<p>I always admired him for being genuinely enthusiastic about sports and caring particularly for grass-roots sport, not just the big teams (even as a Chelsea supporter). You can&#8217;t help but think that he would have loved this weekend&#8217;s <a title=\"BBC Sport - FA Cup homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/fa_cup\/default.stm\" target=\"_blank\">FA Cup<\/a>\u00a0matches (which were one\u00a0in the eye for the <a title=\"Independent\" href=\"http:\/\/sport.independent.co.uk\/football\/comment\/article337036.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Independent&#8217;s comment<\/a> that there are no shocks any more)\u00a0and must have really been looking forward to the Olympics in 2012. A sad loss for sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Banks, RIP. I always admired him for being genuinely enthusiastic about sports and caring particularly for grass-roots sport, not just the big teams (even as a Chelsea supporter). You can&#8217;t help but think that he would have loved this weekend&#8217;s FA Cup\u00a0matches (which were one\u00a0in the eye for the Independent&#8217;s comment that there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-sporting-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}