{"id":81,"date":"2015-11-29T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/monro_wp\/?p=81"},"modified":"2015-11-29T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:40:22","slug":"the-winner-was-a-soldier-named-terry-parsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/the-winner-was-a-soldier-named-terry-parsons\/","title":{"rendered":"The winner was a soldier named Terry Parsons."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8-02-2010<\/p>\n<p>My memories go back to the early fifties I was serving on board HMS Belfast during the Korean war at times we used have a break and visit Hong Kong I was once having a night out in one of the services clubs and radio Hong Kong were holding a talent contest which I entered the winner was a soldier named Terry Parsons.<\/p>\n<p>At that time he was just an unknown soldier and it wasnt until later in life I was told by an oppo of mine who was in the RAF stationed in Hong Kong that I was on the same show as Matt Monro.<\/p>\n<p>I am 77 now but that story has been my claim to fame for a long time now. And I am a big fan of his music even though he did beat me.<\/p>\n<p>sam bottomley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8-02-2010 My memories go back to the early fifties I was serving on board HMS Belfast during the Korean war at times we used have a break and visit Hong [&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-81","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\/81","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=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbarry.org.uk\/mattmonro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}