{"id":190,"date":"2004-09-08T20:47:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T20:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/uncategorized\/close_encounter\/"},"modified":"2004-09-08T20:47:45","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T20:47:45","slug":"close_encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/living-in-the-uk\/close_encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Close Encounter&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"eddiegraph\" src=\"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.typepad.com\/dots\/images\/eddiegraph.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Met Eddie Izzard as I strolled down Curzon Street yesterday, did a quick double-take and turned around, half expected to see his back as he carried on his journey, but no, there he was looking back at me. Had a lovely chat, I felt a bit flustered, but he very kindly signed a small paper bag from my satchel. I must have looked a bit crazy, but shook his hand, wished him well as we parted company. Of course you always think of the should&#8217;ve&#8217;s &#8211; fancy a pint ? Could you write Azerbijhan on my bit of paper? etc, etc. Anyway, felt blessed and cheered up my boring ol&#8217; day. Oh&#8230;I met Nadia from Big Brother too&#8230;on the same day &#8211; are the two events related? Was my celeb radar working rather well, usually I&#8217;m oblivious to everything when I wonder down the road. Been wanting to meet Eddie for years, and so pleased that when I finally did, it was a lovely, friendly and smiley moment. <\/p>\n<p>Eddie has a lovely website, with a recent re-design it seems, go seek him <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eddieizzard.com\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met Eddie Izzard as I strolled down Curzon Street yesterday, did a quick double-take and turned around, half expected to see his back as he carried on his journey, but no, there he was looking back at me. Had a lovely chat, I felt a bit flustered, but he very kindly signed a small paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-the-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotsandspaces.uk\/dots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}