{"id":1471,"date":"2010-07-05T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T15:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2010-07-05T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T15:22:50","slug":"when-brian-was-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/when-brian-was-king\/","title":{"rendered":"When Brian Was King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a spinny article from Nick Cohen written in 1995 at the tail end of the last Conservative Government, when Brian Mawhinney was MP for Peterborough and featuring the ET headline: <em>&#8220;Boy saves turkey from oven by buying the bird with his pocket money&#8221;.<\/em> Here is one of the more timely quotes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one&#8217;s spending any money,&#8221; complained Robbie, barman at the Lion in the city centre. &#8220;Trade has been so slow the boss is not even going to get his bonus from the brewery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noindex,nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/the-peterborough-effect-1527205.html?cmp=ilc-n\" target=\"new\">Read the Full Independent Story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a spinny article from Nick Cohen written in 1995 at the tail end of the last Conservative Government, when Brian Mawhinney was MP for Peterborough and featuring the ET headline: &#8220;Boy saves turkey from oven by buying the bird with his pocket money&#8221;. Here is one of the more timely quotes: &#8220;No one&#8217;s spending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/when-brian-was-king\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Brian Was King&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-colour","category-bbc-radio-peterborough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newlistener.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}