{"id":165931,"date":"2020-10-25T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/25\/james-obrien-i-saw-everything-as-a-fight\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T01:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T23:00:37","slug":"james-obrien-i-saw-everything-as-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=165931","title":{"rendered":"James O\u2019Brien: \u2018I saw everything as a fight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The highly combative star of talk radio is adopting a mellower approach. James O\u2019Brien talks about trust, therapy and knowing when you are wrongOn the day we meet, the broadcaster James O\u2019Brien begins his popular LBC talkshow with a sorry acknowledgment. \u201cI am very conscious of the Groundhog Day nature of some of our encounters,\u201d he says. For the past six months, the pandemic has dominated the three hours he spends on air every weekday. And, alarmingly for a talkshow host, things have become a bit samey. \u201cNormally, I like to have three or four conversational topics in my pocket before we go on air,\u201d he tells me later. \u201cBut since February I have been able to turn up at 10 to 10 knowing we\u2019re going to talk about coronavirus, all day every day, in slightly different ways and forms.\u201dThe LBC studios are in London\u2019s Leicester Square; O\u2019Brien and I meet at a restaurant nearby. It is the middle of September, cold and damp, ugly weather. Boris Johnson has just announced amended lockdown measures: pubs will close at 10pm, the rule of six reapplies. A second wave is imminent, despite forewarning, and it has the nation in a muddle. \u201cI had a fortnight off two weeks ago,\u201d O\u2019Brien says. He arrived today straight from his show but refreshed-seeming. We elbow-tapped a greeting; he is easy company. \u201cAnd I realised that I had to come back happy, upbeat, even as we report negativity, even as we continue to report on this catastrophic handling of the coronavirus.\u201d Continue reading…
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The highly combative star of talk radio is adopting a mellower approach. James O\u2019Brien talks about trust, therapy and knowing when you are wrongOn the day we meet, the broadcaster James O\u2019Brien begins his popular LBC talkshow with a sorry acknowledgment. \u201cI am very conscious of the Groundhog Day nature […]<\/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-165931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165931","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=165931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}