{"id":1366,"date":"2021-12-08T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:24:52","slug":"e264-with-ralph-benmergui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/2021\/12\/08\/e264-with-ralph-benmergui\/","title":{"rendered":"E264 with RALPH BENMERGUI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey folks! Today&#8217;s guest is broadcaster and author <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolsakandwynn.ca\/authors-all\/ralph-benmergui\">Ralph Benmergui<\/a><\/strong>. I first met Ralph in Hamilton&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epicbooks.ca\/\">Epic Books<\/a><\/strong>; when it came up that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/books\/\">my novel<\/a><\/strong> was in stock, he bought it on the spot. So, I&#8217;m a fan. But I was already a fan, really; I can remember when he started up Friday night <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Friday_Night!_with_Ralph_Benmergui#:~:text=Friday%20Night!%20with%20Ralph%20Benmergui%20was%20a%20Canadian%20television%20variety,the%20remainder%20of%20its%20run.\">hosting duties<\/a><\/strong> on CBC TV. What a line-up of music that show had! The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5MSVpK37_fU\">Look People<\/a><\/strong> were his house band for a time. That&#8217;s wild to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, the book is a spiritual memoir called<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca\/collections\/non-fiction\/products\/i-thought-he-was-dead\"> I Thought He Was Dead<\/a><\/strong> and it&#8217;s as inspiring as it is enlightening so check it out. Hope you enjoy the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GET LIT E264 Ralph Benmergui Dec 9 by James Tennant\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1173545821&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! Today&#8217;s guest is broadcaster and author Ralph Benmergui. I first met Ralph in Hamilton&#8217;s Epic Books; when it came up that my novel was in stock, he bought it on the spot. So, I&#8217;m a fan. But I was already a fan, really; I can remember when he started up Friday night hosting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,23,31,20,24,876,16,13,170,875,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-1366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"tag-books","8":"tag-cfmu","9":"tag-fiction","10":"tag-get-lit","11":"tag-hamilton","12":"tag-i-thought-he-was-dead","13":"tag-jamie-tennant","14":"tag-literature","15":"tag-mcmaster-university","16":"tag-ralph-benmergui","17":"tag-wolsak-and-wynn","18":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamietennant.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}