{"id":817,"date":"2009-01-12T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=817"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:43:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:43:47","slug":"howdy-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/01\/howdy-ho.html","title":{"rendered":"Howdy Ho!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/idpa.co.uk\/ted-hankey.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/tedhankey01.gif\" style=\"margin: 3px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" title=\"Do you know why they call him The Count? No seriously, I want to know.\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m back.  Sorry I haven&#8217;t updated the blog much lately but I&#8217;ve been busy what with finally getting to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/modern\/exhibitions\/markrothko\/default.shtm\">the Rothko show<\/a> at the Tate and gathering gossip about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbican.org.uk\/music\/series.asp?ID=557\">the impending Stockhausen gig<\/a> at the Barbican, as well as preparing some new music webpages and oh who am I kidding I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/01\/maybe-next-post-will-be-about-elliott.html\">watching darts<\/a> all weekend.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year&#8217;s champion is the splendidly-named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/othersports\/darts\/4215138\/Ted-Hankey-sets-up-Tony-OShea-final-at-Lakeside.html\">Ted Hankey<\/a>, who made a comeback after losing it at the oche last year when Aussie Simon Whitlock&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/01\/darts-darts-darts-darts-darts-on.html\">weapons-grade mullet<\/a> mesmerised him into punching the dartboard.  Ted attributes his renewed success to a rigorous training regime of cutting down from ten pints before a match to three.  I&#8217;m not making any of this up.  Looking at his photo, it&#8217;s scary to think he&#8217;s only a year older than I am.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back. Sorry I haven&#8217;t updated the blog much lately but I&#8217;ve been busy what with finally getting to see the Rothko show at the Tate and gathering gossip about the impending Stockhausen gig at the Barbican, as well as preparing some new music webpages and oh who am I kidding I&#8217;ve been watching darts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}