{"id":5605,"date":"2025-07-28T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:18:37","slug":"ron-atkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/ron-atkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribute &#8211; Ron Atkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further to the obituary for Brian Sheridan, I\u2019m sad to report that Ron Atkins, another of our founding editors, passed away around the same time.\u00a0 \u00a0He was 89.\u00a0 Better known professionally as Ronald, Ron was more famous as the jazz critic of the <em>Guardian <\/em>newspaper, which he combined with a day job in the Civil Service.\u00a0 His own instrument was the clarinet.\u00a0 A man of many talents, he also wrote or edited a number of books on both jazz and beer, as well as designing record covers.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2e79e14a20f8a4160a5823716b23164422458ab9\/21_57_589_471\/master\/589.jpg?width=620&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo (c) The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our quizmaster, Andy Pirson, remembers Ron well and also how <em>London Drinker<\/em> was put together in the early days.&nbsp; The pages were printed in Manchester and they were brought down to London by car by a volunteer.&nbsp; They would be taken to whichever pub was being used and a \u2018working party\u2019 would collate, fold and staple the pages to create the magazines for distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the obituary for Brian Sheridan, I\u2019m sad to report that Ron Atkins, another of our founding editors, passed away around the same time.\u00a0 \u00a0He was 89.\u00a0 Better known&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}