{"id":401952,"date":"2025-09-06T06:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401952\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T06:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:29:10","slug":"caroline-aherne-inspires-comedians-edinburgh-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/401952\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Aherne inspires comedian&#8217;s Edinburgh move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A comedian has paid homage to Caroline Aherne&#8217;s inspiration for her to make a &#8220;life-changing&#8221; move from Manchester to Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Nina Gilligan went to see the Mrs Merton star, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-36694598\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"noopener\">who died nine year ago aged 52<\/a>, at the famous Fringe festival in the 1980s and then moved to the Scottish city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">She said: &#8220;I blame Caroline Aherne, rest her beautiful soul. I got to meet her and it prompted me to move to Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;That is how exciting the Edinburgh Fringe is &#8211; it changed my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A comedian has paid homage to Caroline Aherne&#8217;s inspiration for her to make a &#8220;life-changing&#8221; move from Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-401952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115155944521315431","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}