{"id":191,"date":"2003-04-12T13:36:24","date_gmt":"2003-04-12T18:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/191.html"},"modified":"2003-04-12T13:36:24","modified_gmt":"2003-04-12T18:36:24","slug":"tony-blair-to-appear-on-the-simpsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/tony-blair-to-appear-on-the-simpsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair to appear on The Simpsons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a chance to write about two of my favorite topics at the same time: politics and The Simpsons.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/cbbcnews\/hi\/tv_film\/newsid_2941000\/2941877.stm\" Target=\"_blank\">BBC is reporting<\/a> that British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a long-time fan of the show, recorded three lines of dialog this week for an upcoming episode. Apparently, he will be appearing on the show as himself.<\/p>\n<p>As the BBC suggested, Blair will be seen giving &#8220;tourism tips&#8221; to the Simpsons family while they&#8217;re visiting England.<\/p>\n<p>As a fan of the show, I can think of some pretty famous guest stars that have appeared over the last 15 years, but all of them came from the entertainment industry. Never, ever, did I think I&#8217;d see a British Prime Minister on The Simpsons.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked Blair, but this is taking my admiration to a new level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a chance to write about two of my favorite topics at the same time: politics and The Simpsons. The BBC is reporting that British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a long-time fan of the show, recorded three lines of dialog this week for an upcoming episode. Apparently, he will be appearing on the show as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}