{"id":375,"date":"2015-09-19T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T09:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2015-09-20T22:49:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T21:49:21","slug":"billys-blog-west-ham-pre-match-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/19\/billys-blog-west-ham-pre-match-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy&#8217;s Blog &#8211; West Ham &#8211; Pre-match thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Michael Jackson they\u2019re forever blowing bubbles, the Hammers, the Iron play at, is it the Boleyn Ground, Upton Park or the Olympic Stadium? Couldn\u2019t really give a monkey\u2019s (MJ\u2019s Bubbles was a chimp).<\/p>\n<p>Except for when Cattle-prod Pardew was there there\u2019s not much to dislike about West Ham. Its history reads very much like ours and with its contribution to the festivities of 1966 makes it a club of the people, again very much like MCFC. Carlos Tevez, my Billy, transfer shenanigans or boot money (spiked in place by a certain toothpick \u2013 I was a witness) although 100 years apart possess similar overtones. Flirting with relegation \u2013 we still cheer on reaching 40 points &#8211; yes, apart from recent kudos and their fans\u2019 in-fighting we have much in common. Then there\u2019s Malcolm Allison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3.jpg\" alt=\"Billy_Meredith_toothpick-3\" width=\"80\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Michael Jackson they\u2019re forever blowing bubbles, the Hammers, the Iron play at, is it the Boleyn Ground, Upton Park or the Olympic Stadium? Couldn\u2019t really give a monkey\u2019s (MJ\u2019s Bubbles was a chimp). Except for when Cattle-prod Pardew was there there\u2019s not much to dislike about West Ham. Its history reads very much like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reddishblues.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}