{"id":1162,"date":"2015-04-30T12:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T12:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2024-01-14T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T10:30:09","slug":"28th-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"28th April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/062-GTO-224-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1163\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/062-GTO-224-1.jpg\" alt=\"GTO 224 Focus On Pantos USE.qxp:GTO 184 Focus On.qxd\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/062-GTO-224-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/062-GTO-224-1-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very sad to hear that variety favourite Keith Harris has died at the age of 67. With his beloved puppets Orville the Duck, Cuddles the Monkey, and, yes, even that Punk Skunk, he was a vital weave in the fabric of my youth. Whether it be his own show, several appearances on the Royal Command Performance, or as the host of &#8216;Disney Time&#8217;, Keith Harris was brilliant at what he did and, by all accounts, a thoroughly decent chap. Speechless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very sad to hear that variety favourite Keith Harris has died at the age of 67. With his beloved puppets Orville the Duck, Cuddles the Monkey, and, yes, even that Punk Skunk, he was a vital weave in the fabric of my youth. Whether it be his own show, several appearances on the Royal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=1162\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">28th April 2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}