{"id":77,"date":"2006-09-26T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/goodbye-dancers-hello-hippos.php"},"modified":"2006-09-26T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T09:53:00","slug":"goodbye-dancers-hello-hippos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/goodbye-dancers-hello-hippos.php","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Dancers, Hello Hippos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/bbchippos-786128.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/bbchippos-783979.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>For many a year we marveled at the spinning globes on BBC1, and then in 1997 we were treated to a globe style hot air balloon. Things were good until 2002 when the balloon was not replaced by the obvious (globe styled juggling balls :-) ), but by dancers NOT wearing globe t-shirts. I was not a happy bunny.<\/p>\n<p>Four and a half years on I am pleased to report we have a new set of indents on the way including kites, the moon, a surfer and hippos among others. Errr, yes, that&#8217;s correct, hippos. The globe has not reappeared, but they all have a rounded styling and a soft and friendly BBC One logo in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>You can see more of the new indents on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2006\/09_september\/26\/idents.shtml\">BBC Press Office web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Please not that this posting may be a little bios against dancers and pro globes, and hippos. :-)<\/span><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Update : A montage of the new idents (including the hippos) are available to view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ofTBnuXpa-8\">here on YouTube<\/a>. If you fancy a trip down memory lane you can also watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gC92XIxZS8E\">the baloon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jsUZ_txyjLA\">the dancers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many a year we marveled at the spinning globes on BBC1, and then in 1997 we were treated to a globe style hot air balloon. Things were good until 2002 when the balloon was not replaced by the obvious (globe styled juggling balls :-) ), but by dancers NOT wearing globe t-shirts. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t60H-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}