{"id":74,"date":"2003-08-20T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/20\/mitch-benn-and-the-distractions\/"},"modified":"2003-08-20T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-20T05:30:00","slug":"mitch-benn-and-the-distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2003\/08\/mitch-benn-and-the-distractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Benn and the Distractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.soundlondon.com\/images\/mon_mitch.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Mitch Benn\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you in Edinburgh just now? Do you need yet another recommendation to go to a festival show? Then this is it. Go and see Mitch Benn at Teviot \/ Gilded Balloon. And tell him I sent you. It&#8217;s been too many festivals since I&#8217;ve been able to see Mitch, so the  next best thing is send everyone to him and get you to leave comments here to make Vikki and I jealous.<\/p>\n<p>So go and see him, his new band, buy the CD, get him a Polar Bear, ask if it&#8217;s really him off the Radio, etc, etc, etc.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a perverse delight in knowing he&#8217;s having to play Teviot Union of all places. Urgh. CSH forever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you in Edinburgh just now? Do you need yet another recommendation to go to a festival show? Then this is it. Go and see Mitch Benn at Teviot \/ Gilded Balloon. And tell him I sent you. It&#8217;s been too many festivals since I&#8217;ve been able to see Mitch, so the next best thing is send everyone to him and get you to leave comments here to make Vikki and I jealous. So go and see him, his new band, buy the CD, get him a Polar Bear, ask if it&#8217;s really him off the Radio, etc, etc, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}