{"id":531,"date":"2007-08-15T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=531"},"modified":"2010-01-10T15:56:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T15:56:22","slug":"30-years-on-leo-sayer-is-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/08\/30-years-on-leo-sayer-is-still-alive.html","title":{"rendered":"30 years on, Leo Sayer is still alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perhaps it&#8217;s the steady rain outside that&#8217;s making me more melancholy than usual and <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/08\/more-about-view-out-my-toilet-window.html\">thinking about Melbourne<\/a>, but I kind of wish I was around the Melbourne Cemetery to see what odd little ceremonies the faithful are up to around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturevictoria.vic.gov.au\/site\/yarra_melbourne\/Carlton\/17127.html\">the Elvis Memorial<\/a> right about now.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I remember where I was when I heard that Elvis had died.  <a title=\"Wow, got any more stories like that?\">I was at home and my mum mentioned it.<\/a>  I&#8217;d never heard of Elvis before so I just mentally substituted the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/custom?cx=006953379116697160534%3Aq5hc976avni&#038;cof=AH%3Aleft%3BCX%3ACooky%2520La%2520Moo%2520Search%3BDIV%3A%23cccccc%3BFORID%3A0%3BGFNT%3A%23666666%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fcoop%2Fimages%2Fgoogle_custom_search_sm%2Egif%3BLH%3A55%3BLP%3A1%3B&amp;q=%22leo+sayer%22&#038;sa=Search&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;client=google-coop-np\">the first pop star I could think of<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s the steady rain outside that&#8217;s making me more melancholy than usual and thinking about Melbourne, but I kind of wish I was around the Melbourne Cemetery to see what odd little ceremonies the faithful are up to around the Elvis Memorial right about now. I remember where I was when I heard that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}