{"id":94,"date":"2007-03-21T21:26:48","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2007-03-21T21:26:48","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T20:26:48","slug":"exactly-the-same-age-as-match-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/exactly-the-same-age-as-match-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Exactly the same age as Match of the Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew from various sources that I was 30 years younger than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norman_Schwarzkopf\">Stormin&#8217; Norman Schwarzkopf<\/a> and 60 years younger than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deng_Xiaoping\">Deng Xiaoping<\/a> &#8211; but thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/duncanborrowman.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/i-am-not-too-old.html\">Duncan&#8217;s post<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/20\/what-was-on-tv-when-you-were-born\/\">Will&#8217;s post<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/open.bbc.co.uk\/catalogue\/infax\/programme\/LOS6513N\">the BBC programme archive<\/a>, I&#8217;ve now discovered that I am <a href=\"http:\/\/open.bbc.co.uk\/catalogue\/infax\/programme\/LOS6513N\">exactly the same age as Match of the Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool vs Arsenal &#8211; and it appears Arsenal won 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Given that I was born in Liverpool Maternity Hospital, it was probably just as well that I had arrived before they knew the result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew from various sources that I was 30 years younger than Stormin&#8217; Norman Schwarzkopf and 60 years younger than Deng Xiaoping &#8211; but thanks to Duncan&#8217;s post about Will&#8217;s post about the BBC programme archive, I&#8217;ve now discovered that I am exactly the same age as Match of the Day. Liverpool vs Arsenal &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/exactly-the-same-age-as-match-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exactly the same age as Match of the Day&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthday","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}