{"id":254,"date":"2007-10-11T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2007\/10\/11\/meany\/"},"modified":"2007-10-11T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T21:24:00","slug":"meany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2007\/10\/11\/meany\/","title":{"rendered":"Meany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know I want to tell you. You know.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I saw a draft cover of a future Radio Times issue this afternoon &#8211; and maybe I&#8217;m extremely warmly-dressed but covers are fascinating to me, both from how important they are and from seeing them made with care. The thing I can&#8217;t tell you is what&#8217;s actually on the cover but standing in a conversation, I couldn&#8217;t stop watching RT&#8217;s art editor Paul Smith making the tiniest, tiniest adjustments. Nudging elements of the cover a pixel here or there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen this before, the time and the talent spent getting an image just right, but I&#8217;ll tell you that this cover was surprising.<\/p>\n<p>When&#8217;s Comic Relief? At the moment, this particular image is planned for the RT issue of that week and if I did tell you what was on, you might shrug and say everybody knows about this particular thing. I think I did, I think I did. But seeing the image in the flesh, so to speak, is different and I&#8217;d like to talk to you about that.<\/p>\n<p>But of course I can&#8217;t, so I&#8217;ll shut up. And apologise for being mean. Let me tell you what I meant &#8211; when the cover&#8217;s on sale.<\/p>\n<p>William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know I want to tell you. You know. But I can&#8217;t. I saw a draft cover of a future &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2007\/10\/11\/meany\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4chyI-meany","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}