{"id":917,"date":"2011-03-20T12:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T12:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:32:33","slug":"day-29-a-picture-that-can-always-make-you-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/day-29-a-picture-that-can-always-make-you-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 29: a picture that can always make you smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QMHJwe48lgg\/TYYHBj-D7SI\/AAAAAAAABWs\/GiYebVRA9mM\/s1600\/29.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5586160111216487714\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-QMHJwe48lgg\/TYYHBj-D7SI\/AAAAAAAABWs\/GiYebVRA9mM\/s400\/29.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Yes, it&#8217;s Alan Rickman. Rickman himself is not always guaranteed to make me smile &#8211; though many moments in the movie from which this picture is taken will have that effect. No, it&#8217;s his part in Mike Oldfield&#8217;s<em>\u00a0Tubular Bells II<\/em>\u00a0that does it. On the original\u00a0<em>Tubular Bells<\/em>, each instrument was introduced by Vivian Stanshall, who frankly to me always sounds a bit like he&#8217;s putting it on. (This is probably heresy in some quarters, but Stanshall and indeed the entire Bonzo Dog Doodah Band were just a bit too aware that they were wild and whacky and therefore funny.) On\u00a0<em>Tubular Bells II<\/em>, that role falls to Mr Rickman, and whatever mood I&#8217;m in, and no matter how many times I&#8217;ve heard it before, hearing his bored drawl utter &#8220;Grand piano &#8230;&#8221; always, yes, makes me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s Alan Rickman. Rickman himself is not always guaranteed to make me smile &#8211; though many moments in the movie from which this picture is taken will have that effect. No, it&#8217;s his part in Mike Oldfield&#8217;s\u00a0Tubular Bells II\u00a0that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/day-29-a-picture-that-can-always-make-you-smile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-30-day-photo-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3863,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/3863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}