{"id":6554,"date":"2016-05-05T22:21:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T22:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/05\/05\/the-thistle-shamrock-alan-reid\/"},"modified":"2016-05-05T22:21:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T22:21:20","slug":"the-thistle-shamrock-alan-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/the-thistle-shamrock-alan-reid\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thistle &amp; Shamrock: Alan Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/05\/476942470\/the-thistle-shamrock-alan-reid?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/05\/05\/alanreid_wide-f88367232301cb3aaaf5a25f7679cbeb2fdcf730-s1100-c15.jpg\" title=\"Alan Reid.\" alt=\"Alan Reid.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Alan Reid. <strong>James Madison Thomas\/Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>James Madison Thomas\/Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marking their shared event at Edinburgh&#8217;s TradFest, host Fiona Ritchie revisits an encounter with her old friend Alan Reid, the singer and long-time Battlefield Band member who was also her very first radio interview subject. They reminisce about that meeting and reflect on musical journeys.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/05\/476942470\/the-thistle-shamrock-alan-reid?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"The Thistle &amp; Shamrock: Alan Reid\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/05\/476942470\/the-thistle-shamrock-alan-reid?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/05\/05\/476942470\/the-thistle-shamrock-alan-reid?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/05\/05\/alanreid_wide-f88367232301cb3aaaf5a25f7679cbeb2fdcf730-s1100-c15.jpg\" title=\"Alan Reid.\" alt=\"Alan Reid.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Alan Reid. <strong>James Madison Thomas\/Courtesy of the artist<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>James Madison Thomas\/Courtesy of the artist<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Marking their shared event at Edinburgh&#8217;s TradFest, host Fiona Ritchie revisits an encounter with her old friend Alan Reid, the singer and long-time Battlefield Band member who was also her very first radio interview subject. They reminisce about that meeting and reflect on musical journeys.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}