{"id":2443,"date":"2010-09-23T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T12:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2019-05-19T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:53:21","slug":"vale-murray-sayle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/vale-murray-sayle\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale:  Murray Sayle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The death has occurred of Australian journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2010\/sep\/21\/murray-sayle-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Murray Sayle<\/a> (1926-2010) whose reports from Japan I particularly remember. &nbsp; Harold Jackson has an amusing reminiscence of their time together in Prague, in the immediate aftermath of the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2010\/sep\/22\/appreciation-murray-sayle-obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; In addition to enjoying his writing, I always felt a personal link to Sayle, in a 6-degrees-of-separation way:&nbsp; he was a school-friend of my late headmaster Colin Meale, who introduced me to the symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich.&nbsp;&nbsp; As I recall, Col did not much like the music of his younger brother <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2009\/11\/vale-richard-meale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard<\/a>, though.<\/p>\n<p>Col&#8217;s fast-witted son Tony I remember&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2014\/02\/in-memory-of-fast-wit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death has occurred of Australian journalist Murray Sayle (1926-2010) whose reports from Japan I particularly remember. &nbsp; Harold Jackson has an amusing reminiscence of their time together in Prague, in the immediate aftermath of the Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968, here.&nbsp;&nbsp; In addition to enjoying his writing, I always felt a personal link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-obits","p1","y2010","m09","d23","h12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9807,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}