{"id":1969,"date":"2014-06-09T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2014-06-01T07:45:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T07:45:21","slug":"happy-30th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/06\/09\/happy-30th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 30th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are reading this it means that the scheduled publication has worked. The reason I&#8217;ve done it is that I am currently on holiday exploring the coast of Dorset for a couple of weeks. On the day this\u00a0is be published I\u00a0 should be at the premises of Henry Ling Printers, Dorchester,\u00a0where\u00a0I&#8217;m booked in for a guided tour with the Chairman. The PAN connection is that they printed the &#8216;Invisible Ink Puzzle Books&#8217; which turned out to be a bit of a nightmare but Tony Kennett has promised to tell all. The reason I put &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; as the title\u00a0is that it is actually 30 years to the day yesterday, June 8th 1984, that the first invisible ink puzzle book &#8216;Ball Games&#8217; by Tom Case was published.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After seeing a signed copy of Johnnie Johnsons &#8216;Full Circle&#8217; with dust jacket appear on eBay several times I was waited until the price dropped again on relisting but someone bid on it. I wasn&#8217;t going to bother until I saw the name in the inscription and then decided I had to have &#8211; and pretend it was for me!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1969 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/06\/09\/happy-30th-birthday\/jj2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/JJ2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/06\/09\/happy-30th-birthday\/jj1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/JJ1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are reading this it means that the scheduled publication has worked. The reason I&#8217;ve done it is that I am currently on holiday exploring the coast of Dorset for a couple of weeks. On the day this\u00a0is be published I\u00a0 should be at the premises of Henry Ling Printers, Dorchester,\u00a0where\u00a0I&#8217;m booked in for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}