{"id":39823,"date":"2025-06-10T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/nick-booth-obituary\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:04:51","slug":"nick-booth-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/nick-booth-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Booth obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Nick Booth, who has died aged 59 after a fall at his home, was an early advocate of using social media to foster better community relations and to encourage civic conversations.<\/p>\n<p>After an initial career as a journalist at the BBC, in the early 2000s he became a freelance entrepreneur in the digital realm, setting up the web-based Grassroots channel in 2005 as an early space for podcasts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/jun\/10\/nick-booth-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Nick Booth, who has died aged 59 after a fall at his home, was an early advocate of using social media to foster better community relations and to encourage civic conversations. After an initial career as a journalist at the BBC, in the early 2000s he became a freelance entrepreneur in the digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}