{"id":69,"date":"2008-03-24T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-09-23T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T01:56:32","slug":"and-curse-sir-walter-raleigh-he-was-such-a-stupid-git","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"<q>And curse Sir Walter Raleigh, He was such a stupid git<\/q>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7311581.stm\"><q>Beatles' ally Neil Aspinall dies<\/q> from the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\" style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\"><p>In The Beatles Anthology DVD, he described his first encounter with George Harrison behind the school's air-raid shelters.<\/p> <p><q>This great mass of shaggy hair loomed up and an out-of-breath voice requested a quick drag of my Woodbine,<\/q> Aspinall said.<\/p> <p><q>It was one of the first cigarettes either of us had smoked. We spluttered our way through it bravely but gleefully.<\/q><\/p> <p><span style=\"font-style: italic\">[\u2026]<\/span><\/p> <p>Mr Aspinall died at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.<\/p> <p>It's understood he was suffering from lung cancer.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div> <p>(Harrison was killed by lung cancer.)<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beatles' ally Neil Aspinall dies from the BBC In The Beatles Anthology DVD, he described his first encounter with George Harrison behind the school's air-raid shelters. This great mass of shaggy hair loomed up and an out-of-breath voice requested a quick drag of my Woodbine, Aspinall said. It was one of the first cigarettes either [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,4],"tags":[105,106,107],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public","tag-beatles","tag-cancer","tag-cigarettes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}