{"id":14082,"date":"2022-06-10T10:38:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14082"},"modified":"2022-06-10T10:39:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:39:12","slug":"happy-80th-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14082","title":{"rendered":"Happy 80th, Gordon!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A second TV legend turns 80 this week! Today it&#8217;s the turn of journalist, newsreader and quiz show host Gordon Burns! Host of the bona fide top-five-of-all-time gameshow <strong>The Krypton Factor<\/strong> for the best part of twenty years, Burns also hosted <strong>Password<\/strong> and a few communication-based games in the mid nineties, <strong>A Word in Your Ear<\/strong> and <strong>Relatively Speaking<\/strong>. Unfortunately there aren&#8217;t any episodes of <em>Relatively Speaking<\/em> and its virtual reality-based endgame on Youtube, but here&#8217;s an episode of <em>A Word In Your Ear<\/em> which was basically the same thing but earlier and with celebrities anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MzstqcqN43g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So that&#8217;s a Fred, a Gordon, are there any gameshow Ginos having an 80th birthday this week? We might get a road trip commission out of ITV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second TV legend turns 80 this week! Today it&#8217;s the turn of journalist, newsreader and quiz show host Gordon Burns! Host of the bona fide top-five-of-all-time gameshow The Krypton Factor for the best part of twenty years, Burns also hosted Password and a few communication-based games in the mid nineties, A Word in Your\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=14082\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3F8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}