{"id":3694,"date":"2011-11-08T23:05:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T03:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3694"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T03:05:17","slug":"portrait-night-118-john-peel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3694","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 11\/8 (John Peel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a couple of good BBC documentaries about influential DJ John Peel last weekend, so I thought he&#8217;d make a good #PortraitNight subject.\u00a0 For what it&#8217;s worth, the two documentaries were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4GebrWLppW8\" target=\"_blank\">John Peel&#8217;s Record Box<\/a> (about the small box of Peel&#8217;s odd favorite 45s discovered at his home after his death) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WAFwjbGRZFM\" target=\"_blank\">John Peel&#8217;s Turn That Racket Down<\/a> (a general profile of him).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/John-Peel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3695\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3695\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/John-Peel.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"758,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"John-Peel\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/John-Peel-227x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/John-Peel.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3695\" title=\"John-Peel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/John-Peel-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/John-Peel-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/John-Peel.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Untitled-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3696\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3696\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Untitled-11.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"286,403\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Untitled-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Untitled-11-212x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Untitled-11.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3696\" title=\"Untitled-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Untitled-11-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Untitled-11-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Untitled-11.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my<a title=\"Ben Towle - Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ben_towle\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a couple of good BBC documentaries about influential DJ John Peel last weekend, so I thought he&#8217;d make a good #PortraitNight subject.\u00a0 For what it&#8217;s worth, the two documentaries were John Peel&#8217;s Record Box (about the small box of Peel&#8217;s odd favorite 45s discovered at his home after his death) and John Peel&#8217;s &hellip; 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