{"id":141884,"date":"2020-04-27T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/27\/how-we-made-xtc-on-making-plans-for-nigel\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:56:24","slug":"how-we-made-xtc-on-making-plans-for-nigel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=141884","title":{"rendered":"How we made: XTC on Making Plans for Nigel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018British Steel responded by rounding up a lot of workers called Nigel and getting them to say their jobs were actually great\u2019Making Plans for Nigel was my attempt at an Alan Bennett-type vignette about someone who\u2019s a bit put-upon. There had been Nigels at my school. The name felt very English. I couldn\u2019t imagine myself in a song about a Graham or Colin. I had the title first, and the rest came very quickly. I finished the whole song in an afternoon. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2020\/apr\/27\/xtc-how-we-made-making-plans-for-nigel\" target=\"_blank\">How we made: XTC on Making Plans for Nigel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018British Steel responded by rounding up a lot of workers called Nigel and getting them to say their jobs were actually great\u2019Making Plans for Nigel was my attempt at an Alan Bennett-type vignette about someone who\u2019s a bit put-upon. There had been Nigels at my school. The name felt very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}