{"id":2125,"date":"2008-01-24T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2008-01-24T10:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T10:02:00","slug":"margrave-of-the-marshes-john-peel-and-sheila-ravenscroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Margrave of the Marshes (John Peel and Sheila Ravenscroft)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/R5hiX81ngUI\/AAAAAAAABtE\/j5F2wHSgRqc\/s1600-h\/Margrave%2Bof%2Bthe%2BMarshes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/R5hiX81ngUI\/AAAAAAAABtE\/j5F2wHSgRqc\/s400\/Margrave%2Bof%2Bthe%2BMarshes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>This was fascinating, although it must be confessed that my musical taste is probably the polar opposite of John Peel&#8217;s. There&#8217;s a very funny (for me) moment in the book when Sheila is recounting his dislike for Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits and U2 and I&#8217;m thinking &#8216;they&#8217;re all the ones I really like!&#8217; On top of which I have never heard &#8216;Teenage Kicks&#8217; which seems to have represented everything he liked. Totally different worlds. (Actually, scratch that &#8211; I also went to boarding school so I could recognise a lot of what he described, and I could really relate to his shyness.)<\/p>\n<p>However, the most interesting aspect of Peel&#8217;s life seems to be the way in which, through pursuing his own interests (= his vocation) he fostered a community and enabled them to experience a sense of belonging, overcoming alienation and loneliness in the process. That seems a holy task. (It also seems to be what <a href=\"http:\/\/revjph.blogspot.com\/\">Mad Priest has accomplished<\/a> in a different medium. I&#8217;m sure he has a copy of &#8216;Teenage Kicks&#8217; \ud83d\ude09<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was fascinating, although it must be confessed that my musical taste is probably the polar opposite of John Peel&#8217;s. There&#8217;s a very funny (for me) moment in the book when Sheila is recounting his dislike for Bruce Springsteen, Dire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2125\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-yh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}