{"id":3844,"date":"1967-11-09T10:29:00","date_gmt":"1967-11-09T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3844"},"modified":"2026-02-13T22:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:37:40","slug":"the-day-i-was-rewarded-a-blue-peter-badge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/the-day-i-was-rewarded-a-blue-peter-badge\/","title":{"rendered":"The day I was rewarded a Blue Peter Badge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a child I was always sending off to magazines, trying to win competitions, drawing, being creative. It was a fantastic day when I received a letter from the TV program Blue Peter. I&#8217;d drawn my dog Blackie from a photo my mum had taken on a 126 camera. They liked the photo and I liked the resulting badge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"968\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bbc-blue-peter-badge-968x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bbc-blue-peter-badge-968x1024.jpg 968w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bbc-blue-peter-badge-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bbc-blue-peter-badge-768x813.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bbc-blue-peter-badge-1451x1536.jpg 1451w, https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bbc-blue-peter-badge-1935x2048.jpg 1935w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child I was always sending off to magazines, trying to win competitions, drawing, being creative. It was a fantastic day when I received a letter from the TV program Blue Peter. I&#8217;d drawn my dog Blackie from a photo my mum had taken on a 126 camera. They liked the photo and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1294],"tags":[837,2798,2799,2797,5],"class_list":["post-3844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrations","category-diary","tag-badge","tag-biddy-baxter","tag-blackie","tag-blue-peter","tag-peter-bargh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3844\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bargh.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}