{"id":1329,"date":"2009-02-18T23:19:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T22:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2009-02-18T23:19:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T22:19:27","slug":"well-done-duffy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1329","title":{"rendered":"Well done, Duffy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last CD that I bought was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Rockferry-Duffy\/dp\/B0012OVF2U\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1234999609&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;Rockferry&#8221;<\/a> by the young Welsh singer Duffy &#8211; I especially love the track &#8220;Mercy&#8221;. Her singing reminds me of the late, great Dusty Springfield.<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;m delighted that, in this evening&#8217;s Brit Awards, Duffy won three times: Best British Female, Best British Album and Best British Breakthrough Act. You can see the full results <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7841069.stm\">here<\/a> and Duffy&#8217;s reaction <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7895443.stm\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nI feel sorry for Coldplay though &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Viva-Death-Friends-Gatefold-Digipack\/dp\/B0017NCVWY\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1235029830&#038;sr=1-1\">&#8220;Viva la Vida&#8221;<\/a> is a really good album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last CD that I bought was &#8220;Rockferry&#8221; by the young Welsh singer Duffy &#8211; I especially love the track &#8220;Mercy&#8221;. Her singing reminds me of the late, great Dusty Springfield. So I&#8217;m delighted that, in this evening&#8217;s Brit Awards, Duffy won three times: Best British Female, Best British Album and Best British Breakthrough Act. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}