{"id":250,"date":"2009-08-31T23:09:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T23:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=250"},"modified":"2009-08-31T23:09:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T23:09:02","slug":"the-most-important-piece-of-news-youre-likely-to-read-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/31\/the-most-important-piece-of-news-youre-likely-to-read-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Piece Of News You&#8217;re Likely To Read This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Iron Maiden\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iron_Maiden\">Iron Maiden<\/a>&#8216;s guitarist <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Adrian Smith\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ironmaiden.com\">Adrian Smith<\/a> has caught a massive <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fish\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fish\">fish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He currently holds the honour for bagging the biggest catch this season &#8211; the fish clocked in at an impressive 7 pounds and 14 ounces.<\/p>\n<p>Smith made this revelation in the latest issue of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Angler's Mail\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angler%27s_Mail\">Angler&#8217;s Mail<\/a>, where he also talked his habit for taking worms on tour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;We used to keep worms in containers under the tourbus and in summer they would get a bit savoury. I also remember a maggot scare in a very plush hotel in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Amsterdam\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=52.3730555556,4.89222222222&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=52.3730555556,4.89222222222 (Amsterdam)&amp;t=h\">Amsterdam<\/a> when I was fishing in the canal there. They&#8217;re certainly not on the room service menu.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Via<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetrock.com\/news-280809-2.htm\" target=\"blank\">Planet Rock&#8217;s website<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/iron-maiden\/46902\" target=\"blank\">NME.com<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglersmail.co.uk\/\" target=\"blank\">Angler&#8217;s Mail<\/a> &#8211; I think this is the first time I&#8217;ve referenced a reference&#8217;s source&#8217;s source. Or something.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iron Maiden&#8216;s guitarist Adrian Smith has caught a massive fish. He currently holds the honour for bagging the biggest catch this season &#8211; the fish clocked in at an impressive 7 pounds and 14 ounces. Smith made this revelation in the latest issue of Angler&#8217;s Mail, where he also talked his habit for taking worms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12,13,17],"tags":[90,190,234,312,538,1142,1553,2133,2183,2385],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gibberish","category-hobbies","category-humour","category-linkage","tag-90","tag-adrian-smith","tag-amsterdam","tag-august","tag-bruce-dickinson","tag-fish","tag-iron-maiden","tag-netherlands","tag-north-holland","tag-planet-rock","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-42","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}