{"id":3325,"date":"2020-11-16T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2020-11-16T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:27:35","slug":"portuguese-revolution-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/portuguese-revolution-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Portuguese Revolution Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Joao Da  Ponte who was in my year has apparently passed away. I have only just  discovered how important a figure his father Bruno was, this obit is  where I learned that Joao had died &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterfire.org\/articles\/opinion\/20064-obituary-bruno-da-ponte-1932-2018\">https:\/\/www.counterfire.org\/articles\/opinion\/20064-obituary-bruno-da-ponte-1932-2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Joao  and I went to see Status Quo in about 1972 at the Empire theatre,  walked home to Morningside to fried eggs at 3am. He was laid back and a  really good friend\u00a0who kept me honest. He had a younger brother Jose who also attended the school.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From John Burns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Editors note &#8211; The brothers attended the Royal High School between 1970 and 1974 then returned to Portugal as described in the linked obituary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joao Da Ponte who was in my year has apparently passed away. I have only just discovered how important a figure his father Bruno was, this obit is where I learned that Joao had died &#8211; https:\/\/www.counterfire.org\/articles\/opinion\/20064-obituary-bruno-da-ponte-1932-2018 \u00a0Joao and I went to see Status Quo in about 1972 at the Empire theatre, walked home to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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-3325","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\/3325","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.royalhigh.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}