{"id":144,"date":"2006-03-01T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/87.117.246.58\/~robert\/news\/?p=144"},"modified":"2014-11-30T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T17:12:20","slug":"1-march-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"1 March 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/87.117.246.58\/~robert\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/denniskirkland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-156\" src=\"http:\/\/87.117.246.58\/~robert\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/denniskirkland-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"denniskirkland\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Robert attended the joyous funeral service of Dennis Kirkland at St. James&#8217; Church, Hampton Hill.\u00a0 Den&#8217;s last performance was, suitably enough, to a packed audience.\u00a0 It was standing room only at the church and the friends and family that attended were all invited to wear something pink in Den&#8217;s memory.\u00a0 Jon Jon Keefe, one of Benny Hill&#8217;s beloved stooges, provided happy memories of the Thames years, while Chas &#8216;n&#8217; Dave sang Den&#8217;s favourite song, Ain&#8217;t No Pleasing You.\u00a0 But, it was Den&#8217;s wife, Mary, and daughter, Jo, that gave the bravest tributes.\u00a0 A suitably upbeat, hilarious and moving farewell to a lovely chap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert attended the joyous funeral service of Dennis Kirkland at St. James&#8217; Church, Hampton Hill.\u00a0 Den&#8217;s last performance was, suitably enough, to a packed audience.\u00a0 It was standing room only at the church and the friends and family that attended were all invited to wear something pink in Den&#8217;s memory.\u00a0 Jon Jon Keefe, one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 March 2006<\/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-144","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\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}