{"id":1094,"date":"2014-11-12T19:36:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2014-11-12T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T19:36:19","slug":"eric-brown-desert-island-disks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/eric-brown-desert-island-disks\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Brown on Desert Island Disks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear members and friends of the Royal High School Club in London,<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>This is just to let you know that on Friday 14 Nov at 9am, BBC Radio 4\u2019s Desert Island Discs will welcome former Royal Navy test pilot Eric \u2018Winkle\u2019 Brown CBE for its 3000th edition.  Eric is a famous former pupil of the Royal High (he left the school in 1937) and he has spoken on a few memorable occasions at our London Club dinners about his exploits during the war and afterwards.  Eric was the chief test pilot at Farnborough who, in testing 487 different types of aircraft, has flown more types of aircraft than anyone else in history.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Alex Prentice,<\/p>\r\n<p>Hon Secretary.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear members and friends of the Royal High School Club in London, This is just to let you know that on Friday 14 Nov at 9am, BBC Radio 4\u2019s Desert Island Discs will welcome former Royal Navy test pilot Eric \u2018Winkle\u2019 Brown CBE for its 3000th edition. Eric is a famous former pupil of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}