{"id":7,"date":"2014-01-15T10:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T10:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/?p=7"},"modified":"2014-01-15T10:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T10:50:51","slug":"bbc-breakfast-on-the-closure-of-ceefax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/2014\/01\/15\/bbc-breakfast-on-the-closure-of-ceefax\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Breakfast on the closure of Ceefax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote thousands upon thousands of pages of BBC Ceefax back in the day and it was one of the highlights of my writing career. And it&#8217;s gone. This is a clip from October 2012 when BBC Breakfast featured the final closing down of the service. I didn&#8217;t clip this to YouTube: I don&#8217;t know who did, but I appreciate the copyright-busting courtesy. One other thing: I was interviewed here really because I wrote about my time on Ceefax in a feature on Radio Times. <\/p>\n<p>That was one of my most popular and most successful, also frankly one of my best articles on the RT website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/news\/2012-10-23\/farewell-to-ceefax---it-was-nice-working-with-you\">Farewell to Ceefax \u2013 it was nice working with you<\/a>. And that would&#8217;ve been a forgotten and very boring little piece if editor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timglanfield\">Tim Glanfield<\/a> hadn&#8217;t got me to rewrite it and make it better.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HUaqk7Kj1ig\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote thousands upon thousands of pages of BBC Ceefax back in the day and it was one of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/2014\/01\/15\/bbc-breakfast-on-the-closure-of-ceefax\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/video\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}