{"id":4813,"date":"2016-06-01T16:17:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2016-06-02T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T08:28:00","slug":"silas-shocks-audience-on-his-radio-debut-for-abbey-104-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4813","title":{"rendered":"Silas shocks audience on his radio debut for Abbey 104 FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Blog&#8217;s erstwhile gardening and rural affairs correspondent <strong>SILAS SILAGE<\/strong>\u00a0is back from wherever he has been lurking. Although he has not written for the Blog since 2011, he has been sniffing around the media scene, and recently surfaced on the Sherborne\/Yeovil community radio station <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abbey104.com\">Abbey 104 FM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He persuaded their star presenter <strong>Cat Paterson<\/strong> to accompany him on an all-night badger watch on the Bank Holiday Monday. Armed with just a microphone, she tiptoed into the woods with Silas. . . . .<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zKcl-OaeClk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#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><\/div>\n<p><em>(Excerpt from a Radio programme first broadcast on Monday 30 May 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blog&#8217;s erstwhile gardening and rural affairs correspondent SILAS SILAGE\u00a0is back from wherever he has been lurking. Although he has not written for the Blog since 2011, he has been sniffing around the media scene, and recently surfaced on the Sherborne\/Yeovil community radio station Abbey 104 FM. He persuaded their star presenter Cat Paterson to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silas shocks audience on his radio debut for Abbey 104 FM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[794,2757,2768,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-news","category-silas-silage","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1fD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}