{"id":139692,"date":"2010-01-05T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1038501"},"modified":"2010-01-05T07:37:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T12:37:54","slug":"did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/139692","title":{"rendered":"Did you know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Post all your strange, esoteric, useful and indeed utterly useless facts here. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll &#8216;kick off&#8217; with this one:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/p43YYovonS0\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/p43YYovonS0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b54rB64fXY4\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b54rB64fXY4\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>American Jazz poet (most famous for his classic 1970 song &quot;The Revolution will not be Televised&quot;) and black radical Gil Scott-Heron&#8217;s Dad Giles &quot;Gil&quot; Heron played as a centre forward for Celtic in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>He was Celtic&#8217;s 1st ever black player and was nicknamed the &quot;Black Arrow&quot; or the &quot;Black Flash&quot; &#8211; he scored on his debut.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.footballandmusic.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/gilheron.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He played for Celtic for two seasons before moving to Third Lanark, Kidderminster Harriers and finally back to America to the Detroit Corinthians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/leagues\/scottishpremier\/celtic\/3537168\/Celtics-first-black-player-Gil-Heron-dies-aged-87-Football.html\" >http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/foo&#8230;-Football.html<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post all your strange, esoteric, useful and indeed utterly useless facts here. \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ll &#8216;kick off&#8217; with this one: American Jazz poet (most famous for his classic 1970 song &quot;The Revolution will not be Televised&quot;) and black radical Gil Scott-Heron&#8217;s Dad Giles &quot;Gil&quot; Heron played as a centre forward for Celtic in the early 1950s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}