{"id":272043,"date":"2025-11-08T23:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272043\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:24:11","slug":"9am-on-the-radio-rnz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272043\/","title":{"rendered":"9am on the radio | RNZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beside the stereo is a large bouquet of flowers, carefully arranged inside her second-best vase. Happy birthday, Barbara, reads the card, in Colin\u2019s wife\u2019s handwriting. Love Colin and family. At least they remembered. At least someone remembered. Barbara leans toward the stereo and listens: the broadcaster is talking about Princess Diana\u2019s death the day before \u2013 what a shock that was. When Barbara first heard about it on the radio the previous afternoon, she\u2019d been so alarmed, she\u2019d dropped her best vase. And here she was: sitting beside a pile of broken porcelain that she still hadn\u2019t cleaned up, because it hurt her knees, and her birthday wasn\u2019t the time to remind herself of all her body could no longer do. Happy birthday to me, she thinks. At least I have my new stereo. And she\u2019ll listen to the news, followed by a deep-dive story about Diana\u2019s life \u2013 that will be interesting. After that, she\u2019ll go out to get her hair done, and, at some point, clean up the remnants of the vase.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beside the stereo is a large bouquet of flowers, carefully arranged inside her second-best vase. Happy birthday, Barbara,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-272043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}