{"id":14855,"date":"2022-10-09T20:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/whit-pele-said-tae-ali\/"},"modified":"2022-10-09T20:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T19:23:01","slug":"whit-pele-said-tae-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/whit-pele-said-tae-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Whit Pel\u00e9 said tae Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14851\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d1495fd50aec8a7f22f99ef1d7dfe1a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d1495fd50aec8a7f22f99ef1d7dfe1a1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d1495fd50aec8a7f22f99ef1d7dfe1a1-278x300.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d1495fd50aec8a7f22f99ef1d7dfe1a1-409x441.jpg 409w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d1495fd50aec8a7f22f99ef1d7dfe1a1-1x1.jpg 1w, https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d1495fd50aec8a7f22f99ef1d7dfe1a1-10x10.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Whit Pel\u00e9 said tae Ali<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Jim Aitken<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ach, big man, Ah\u2019m fair chuffed<br \/>tae see ye so Ah am. Ah\u2019ve luved<br \/>the wey ye deal wi the mediya an<br \/>tak the piss oot ay them aw, an the<br \/>wey ye mak aw us black folk feel<br \/>aboot oorsels. Ye\u2019ve chainged the gemm<br \/>for us wi yer patter an yer cairryin oan.<br \/>Ah jist luve it so Ah dae. An ye get awey<br \/>wi it cos ye have talent an the rerr style<br \/>thit abody envies, ay an yer niver flustert.<br \/>Ah couldnae dae thon but whit we hae<br \/>in common is bein sae guid at whit we dae.<br \/>But get this, big man, yer ainly the greatest<br \/>wi the mitts oan , Ah\u2019m the greatest wi the togs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whit Pel\u00e9 said tae Ali by Jim Aitken Ach, big man, Ah\u2019m fair chuffedtae see ye so Ah am. Ah\u2019ve luvedthe wey ye deal wi the mediya&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":14851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2658],"class_list":["post-14855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-muhammed-ali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}