{"id":2846,"date":"2008-08-21T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T09:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2008-08-21T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T09:25:14","slug":"who-do-you-think-you-are-bbc1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/08\/21\/who-do-you-think-you-are-bbc1\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Michael Deacon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the following quotation, guess the identity of the household name examining the branches of his family tree tonight. &#8220;She saw his name on a list of people to be hanged under a clock in the next few days. Cripes!&#8221; Yes, it could only be Boris Johnson.The London Mayor and Daily Telegraph columnist is referring to a letter his grandmother wrote 100 years ago reporting news of Johnson&#8217;s great-grandfather &#8211; a controversial political journalist in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>advertisementJohnson&#8217;s ancestry is a stew of nationalities: Turkish, English, Russian, German, French (&#8220;We were led to believe that Granny Butter had some immensely distinguished Alsatian antecedents. When I say Alsatian I mean \u2018from Alsace&#8217;, they weren&#8217;t dogs&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Like almost all episodes of Who Do You Think You Are?, tonight&#8217;s is impressively varied in tone (funny, sad, even at times uplifting) and uncovers surprising things: it turns out that Johnson has ancestors even more exalted than Granny Butter let on.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps Johnson&#8217;s most intriguing disclosure is that he won his school&#8217;s scripture prize.<\/p>\n<p>As devotees of PG Wodehouse will know, this is the regular boast of a man to whom Johnson has been fondly likened: one Bertram Wooster.<\/p>\n<p>Source : telegraph.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Deacon From the following quotation, guess the identity of the household name examining the branches of his family tree tonight. &#8220;She saw his name on a list of people to be hanged under a clock in the next few days. Cripes!&#8221; Yes, it could only be Boris Johnson.The London Mayor and Daily Telegraph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":108034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}