{"id":9207,"date":"2016-03-17T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T09:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2016-03-20T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T12:47:09","slug":"paul-daniels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9207","title":{"rendered":"Paul Daniels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/daniels.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8459\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8459\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=8459\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/daniels.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"161,121\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"daniels\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/daniels.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8459\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/daniels.jpg\" alt=\"daniels\" width=\"161\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>I was\u00a0sad to hear of the passing of Paul Daniels this morning, a magician I enjoyed watching growing up but also a masterful host of <strong>Every Second Counts<\/strong> and <strong>Wipeout<\/strong> (and also <strong>Odd One Out<\/strong> but I was a bit young). By turns comically grumpy, then demonstrating ballet moves using a Barbie doll as a model (I always thought he was a better host and had a better grasp of the tension of <em>Wipeout<\/em> than the late great Bob Monkhouse).<\/p>\n<p>He is also the inspiration for #hostholdingaquestioncard. Which isn&#8217;t even a question card really.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: Challenge showing\u00a0Paul Daniels eps of <strong>Wipeout<\/strong>, <strong>Celebrity Blockbusters<\/strong> (as contestant) and <strong>Blankety Blank<\/strong> (as panellist) between noon and 5pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Edit edit: Incredible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/danielswipeout.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9210\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=9210\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/danielswipeout.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"danielswipeout\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/danielswipeout.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/danielswipeout-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"danielswipeout\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/danielswipeout-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/danielswipeout.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was\u00a0sad to hear of the passing of Paul Daniels this morning, a magician I enjoyed watching growing up but also a masterful host of Every Second Counts and Wipeout (and also Odd One Out but I was a bit young). By turns comically grumpy, then demonstrating ballet moves using a Barbie doll as a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=9207\">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-9207","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-2ov","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207","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=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}