{"id":79,"date":"2015-11-29T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/monro_wp\/?p=79"},"modified":"2015-11-29T14:39:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:39:16","slug":"a-gentle-man-standing-next-to-me-in-his-dressing-gown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/a-gentle-man-standing-next-to-me-in-his-dressing-gown\/","title":{"rendered":"A gentle man standing next to me in his dressing gown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>31-01-2010<\/p>\n<p>In the early 80s I was just demobbed from the Army and back from abroad, Cyprus. I was staying in a hotel in the East of England, Norwich I think, during the night the fire alarm whent off and we all had to go out on the car park.<\/p>\n<p>A gentle man standing next to me in his dressing gown said, &#8221; Been some where hot&#8221; I had for 3 years so had a really good tan, I told him I was just leaving the Army and we had a good chat about mine and his experiences, It was of course Matt Monro,<\/p>\n<p>It was a false alarm and we were offered free hot drinks my the manager, I had a cuppa and he signed the back of a photo of my 2 children, I still have it.<\/p>\n<p>William Moss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31-01-2010 In the early 80s I was just demobbed from the Army and back from abroad, Cyprus. I was staying in a hotel in the East of England, Norwich I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-submissions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/80"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}