{"id":4315,"date":"2010-12-10T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2010-12-10T00:04:15","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:04:15","slug":"happy-anniversary-coronation-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4315","title":{"rendered":"Happy anniversary &#8220;Coronation Street&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, &#8220;Coronation Street&#8221; &#8211; the world&#8217;s long-running television soap &#8211; marked 50 years of broadcasting in a dramatic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-11961384\">special episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show is based on Manchester, the city where I grew up [my notes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Europe.html#Manchester\">here<\/a>] and, three years ago, I was able to visit the set of the television series [my blog posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=700\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>So well done to everyone involved in such a special look at working class life.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/CT.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Standing second from left<br \/>&#8211; that&#8217;s me outside the &#8220;Rover&#8217;s Return&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/CT2.jpg\" border=\"3\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span>Pulling a pint in the &#8220;Rover&#8217;s Return&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, &#8220;Coronation Street&#8221; &#8211; the world&#8217;s long-running television soap &#8211; marked 50 years of broadcasting in a dramatic special episode. The show is based on Manchester, the city where I grew up [my notes here] and, three years ago, I was able to visit the set of the television series [my blog posting here]. [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","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\/4315","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=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}