{"id":12825,"date":"2017-12-16T00:07:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T05:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2017-12-15T23:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T04:58:34","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=12825","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The late, great Bill Hicks was born back in 1961!<br \/>\nI consider myself very lucky to have been the only<br \/>\ncomedy show host to be allowed to tape and<br \/>\nbe part of the first tribute to Bill Hicks at the<br \/>\nMontreal Comedy Festival back in the mid 90s.<br \/>\nBill was one of a kind, nobody quite like him.<br \/>\nHe was brash, profane and very intelligent&#8230;one<br \/>\nof the very best stand-up comedians on the planet.<br \/>\nHe started doing stand-up at the age of 16, a real<br \/>\nprodigy, and he made the best of it.<br \/>\nShows all over the world and a godlike status in<br \/>\nGreat Britain, all richly deserved.<br \/>\nKeeping him alive on the show, with heavy editing.<br \/>\nR.I.P Bill Hicks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?attachment_id=12826\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12826\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BillHicksTelevision.jpg\" alt=\"BillHicksTelevision\" width=\"500\" height=\"508\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BillHicksTelevision.jpg 500w, https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/BillHicksTelevision-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late, great Bill Hicks was born back in 1961! I consider myself very lucky to have been the only comedy show host to be allowed to tape and be part of the first tribute to Bill Hicks at the Montreal Comedy Festival back in the mid 90s. Bill was one of a kind, nobody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12827,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions\/12827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}