{"id":5379,"date":"2017-07-03T07:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T07:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2017-07-03T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T07:37:33","slug":"rip-michael-bond-playschool-and-a-couples-of-hitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2017\/07\/03\/rip-michael-bond-playschool-and-a-couples-of-hitches\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Michael Bond, Playschool and a couples of Hitches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Paddington.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Paddington.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"217\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last week saw yet another children&#8217;s favourite depart, namely Michael Bond of Paddington Bear fame. He was born in 1926 and for a time worked at the BBC as a cameraman on &#8216;Blue Peter&#8217; He left in 1965 to become a full time writer after his first Paddington book was a success. PAN published 7 Paddington titles but unfortunately at the moment I can only find 4 of them. Click <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2017\/Assorted\/Paddington.htm\">HERE<\/a><\/span> to see them and I&#8217;ll add the others when they turn up. He also wrote the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/06\/29\/hans-helweg-original-artwork\/\">Olga da Polga <\/a><\/span>stories which although not PAN have been mentioned before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve managed to track down my two <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2017\/Assorted\/Playschool.htm\">&#8216;Playschool&#8217;<\/a><\/span> covers I referred to last week and they are shown HERE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I&#8217;ve also realised I didn&#8217;t have a couple of Hitchcock covers from 1968 so I&#8217;ve added them to my Hitchcock page <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/2017\/Assorted\/Hitchcock.htm\">&#8216;My Favourites in Suspense&#8217; <\/a><\/span>parts one and two. It&#8217;s made me realise I need to tidy up the Hitchcock&#8217;s as they are all over the place.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week saw yet another children&#8217;s favourite depart, namely Michael Bond of Paddington Bear fame. He was born in 1926 and for a time worked at the BBC as a cameraman on &#8216;Blue Peter&#8217; He left in 1965 to become a full time writer after his first Paddington book was a success. PAN published 7 [&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\/5379"}],"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=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}