{"id":451,"date":"2008-12-18T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T17:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/87.117.246.58\/~robert\/news\/?p=451"},"modified":"2014-12-01T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T17:19:03","slug":"18th-december-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"18th December 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert is awoken to the sad news that friend and comic hero Jack Douglas has passed away at the age of 81. A unique talent and a true gentleman, Robert vows to do only one radio tribute today &#8211; for his old pal Luke Deal &#8211; and sticks to his word. Jack had been poorly for a while and,\u00a0although the news was not unexpected it was still a blow. Robert&#8217;s next book will be dedicated to Jack and those special memories of a long and happy friendship &#8211; alongside those gems of comedy and serious acting from Jack preserved in the archives &#8211; will remain invaluable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert is awoken to the sad news that friend and comic hero Jack Douglas has passed away at the age of 81. A unique talent and a true gentleman, Robert vows to do only one radio tribute today &#8211; for his old pal Luke Deal &#8211; and sticks to his word. Jack had been poorly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/?p=451\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">18th December 2008<\/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-451","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\/451","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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertross.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}