{"id":7168,"date":"2013-09-01T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T14:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2013-09-01T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T14:31:39","slug":"sir-david-frost-broadcaster-and-writer-dies-of-heart-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/sir-david-frost-broadcaster-and-writer-dies-of-heart-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir David Frost, broadcaster and writer dies of heart attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir David Frost has passed away<\/a> at age 74–no doubt, one of the greatest interviewers of our time.<\/p>\n

The BBC has a video tribute on this page<\/a>. Of course, Frost is possibly best known for his interview with Richard Nixon, post Watergate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sir David Frost has passed away at age 74–no doubt, one of the greatest interviewers of our time. The BBC has a video tribute on this page. Of course, Frost is possibly best known for his interview with Richard Nixon, post Watergate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[2123,2122],"class_list":["post-7168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-interviewers","tag-sir-david-frost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1RC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7689,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-rebirth-of-the-state-were-in-now-a-podcast-via-wbez-chicago\/","url_meta":{"origin":7168,"position":0},"title":"The Rebirth of The State We’re In: now a podcast via WBEZ Chicago","author":"Thomas","date":"October 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"You may remember The State We're In (TSWI) from Radio Netherlands Worldwide\u00a0and how sad I was to hear TSWI was\u00a0cancelled in the wake of RNW's cuts last year. 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