{"id":4916,"date":"2010-08-12T18:32:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2010-08-12T18:43:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T18:43:50","slug":"rip-geoff-percival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/rip-geoff-percival\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Geoff Percival"},"content":{"rendered":"
We’ve had some sad news – Echo political reporter Geoff Percival has passed away, following some months of illness.<\/p>\n
Geoff was the archetypal newspaperman, a true professional and often willing to relax and chat after a council meeting with a pint in one hand and a pen in the other. Although he no doubt had his own political views he strove to be fair, and was genuinely interested in the future of Rayleigh. Another blogger’s memories of him are here.<\/a><\/p>\n It’s quite unnerving to think that none of us will hear his familiar drawl down the telephone ever again.<\/p>\n – Chris Black<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve had some sad news – Echo political reporter Geoff Percival has passed away, following some months of illness. Geoff was the archetypal newspaperman, a true professional and often willing to relax and chat after a council meeting with a pint in one hand and a pen in the other. Although he no doubt had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n