{"id":316,"date":"2010-10-29T09:38:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T08:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2011-12-22T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T11:26:59","slug":"chris-addison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Chris Addison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisaddison.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/chris_addison.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chris Addison\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Went to see Chris Addison at The Junction last night.  We sat right at the front, which was maybe a bit close as you had to look up at him and he was really tall.  He was sharp and very fast.  I was impressed enough by him that I&#8217;ll be seeking out The Thick of It.   He&#8217;s just a few years older than I am so I identified with a lot of what he said.  He looks so young though for nearly 39!  He made plenty of jokes poking fun at the middle class, in which he counts himself, which I rather enjoyed.  The main message I took from his act &#8211; and I quite like comedy with a message as long as it&#8217;s not too preachy &#8211; is that we do moan too much; there&#8217;s never been a better time to be alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to see Chris Addison at The Junction last night. We sat right at the front, which was maybe a bit close as you had to look up at him and he was really tall. He was sharp and very fast. I was impressed enough by him that I&#8217;ll be seeking out The Thick of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}