{"id":9065,"date":"2026-07-30T12:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T12:21:07","slug":"bill-oddie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/bill-oddie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Oddie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/2026\/07\/29\/graeme-garden-on-bill-oddie\/\">Even in his less agreeable moods, it was hard to be angry with Bill Oddie<\/a><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An article on the death of Bill Oddie 25 July 2026 (aged 85) by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/g\/gp-gt\/graeme-garden\/\">Graeme Garden<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Goodies_(TV_series)\">Goodie<\/a> gone, Tim Brooke-Taylor having died of COVID-19 on 12 April 2020 (age 79).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please watch:<br>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5z4bq55vuNI\">The Goodies: An Audience With The Goodies<\/a>&#8220;<br>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6bsFcUHwxyY\">The Goodies 50th Anniversary<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Even in his less agreeable moods, it was hard to be angry with Bill Oddie. An article on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9065\/revisions\/9072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}