{"id":9986,"date":"2011-11-04T09:57:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2011-11-08T12:04:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T17:04:34","slug":"he-was-a-rather-strange-and-annoying-but-undoubtedly-a-great-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/he-was-a-rather-strange-and-annoying-but-undoubtedly-a-great-man\/","title":{"rendered":"He Was a\u2026Rather Strange and Annoying but Undoubtedly a Great Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9987\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-9987\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/he-was-a-rather-strange-and-annoying-but-undoubtedly-a-great-man\/jimmysavile-300x225\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9987\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/jimmySavile-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Jimmy Savile<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As an American, the death of <strong>Sir<\/strong> (yes, good heavens, he was knighted) <strong>Jimmy Savile<\/strong> cannot have the resonance with me that it might for many Brits of a certain age.\u00a0Let&#8217;s think of him as a kind of freaky <strong>Dick Clark<\/strong>.\u00a0Well: at least freaky in a different way.\u00a0Anyway, for a long time, he was to me just &#8220;that really weird guy who pops up in a lot of old British invasion clips.&#8221;\u00a0But as the longtime host of <em>Top of the Pops<\/em> he was undoubtedly a sort of institution in the UK.\u00a0Perhaps <strong>Happiness Stan<\/strong> can put this in some perspective for us.\u00a0 In the meantime, here is the <em>New York Times <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/03\/arts\/television\/jimmy-savile-tv-personality-dies-at-84.html\" target=\"_blank\">obit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an American, the death of Sir (yes, good heavens, he was knighted) Jimmy Savile cannot have the resonance with me that it might for many Brits of a certain age.\u00a0Let&#8217;s think of him as a kind of freaky Dick Clark.\u00a0Well: at least freaky in a different way.\u00a0Anyway, for a long time, he was to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/he-was-a-rather-strange-and-annoying-but-undoubtedly-a-great-man\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,526,527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}