{"id":4086,"date":"2008-12-09T22:48:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T03:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2010-10-03T22:25:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T02:25:40","slug":"oliver-postgates-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/oliver-postgates-world\/","title":{"rendered":"oliver postgate&#8217;s world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to hear that Oliver Postgate passed away. <em>Bagpuss<\/em> was my series; it started just as I started school, and I caught the first episodes. I spent the whole evening learning the theme on the mandolin, and watched a couple of episodes, half-teary. Was it really nearly 35 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>The music and sounds are what stuck with me. I didn&#8217;t know it at the time &#8211; but did as soon as I picked one up &#8211; that the <em>Bagpuss waking up magic<\/em> sound is a slow upwards glissando on an autoharp. Similarly, the <em>falling asleep<\/em> sound is an autoharp strummed slowly downwards. Gabriel&#8217;s instrument confused me for years &#8211; I now see it has a 5 string banjo neck, but no fifth string (like <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/music-tapes-caroling-at-our-house\/\">someone else I could name<\/a>). To add further confusion, it&#8217;s really a mandolin that&#8217;s Gabriel&#8217;s sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad to hear that Oliver Postgate passed away. Bagpuss was my series; it started just as I started school, and I caught the first episodes. I spent the whole evening learning the theme on the mandolin, and watched a couple of episodes, half-teary. Was it really nearly 35 years ago? The music and sounds are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1310,1450,2902,1423],"class_list":["post-4086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-autoharp","tag-bagpuss","tag-banjo","tag-mandolin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-13U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}