{"id":115,"date":"2019-10-10T15:50:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T15:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corben-dallas.co.uk\/durango95\/?p=115"},"modified":"2019-10-10T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T15:50:48","slug":"shrine-to-murray-walker-obe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/2019\/10\/10\/shrine-to-murray-walker-obe\/","title":{"rendered":"SHRINE TO MURRAY WALKER OBE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Birthday Murray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of all the odd surrogate fathers TV has provided for me over the years you are definately the weirdest and most enthusiastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This favourite Murray Walker story <a href=\"https:\/\/corben-dallas.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/murray-walkers-21st-birthday-party.html\">(from my other blog in 2013)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an attempt to play up the comedy potential of the fuddy duddy long time F1 commentator ITV put Murray in a two seater F1 car and blitzed him around Silverstone &#8211; and were then waiting on hand with a film crew to get the reaction of this 60 year old man exposed to serious G.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;What did you think of that Murray?!&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;asked some ITV muppet jamming a phone into his face as soon as his lid was off&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Was that the scariest thing you&#8217;ve ever done!?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;No &#8211; but was the most exciting experience since my 21st birthday&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em>replies Walker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;What was that?&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;asks the ITV muppet with obvious disappointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;A tank battle just outside Normandy&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday Murray Of all the odd surrogate fathers TV has provided for me over the years you are definately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durango95.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}