{"id":180,"date":"2013-12-06T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T12:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2013-12-08T04:38:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T04:38:26","slug":"episodes-003-and-004-of-off-off-pod-released-billy-hayes-author-of-midnight-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/episodes-003-and-004-of-off-off-pod-released-billy-hayes-author-of-midnight-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Episodes 003 and 004 of Off Off Pod Released \u2013 Billy Hayes author of Midnight Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/offoffpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/riding_midnight_express_poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-200 alignleft\" alt=\"riding_midnight_express_poster\" src=\"http:\/\/offoffpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/riding_midnight_express_poster-300x227.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>In the latest 2 episodes of <a title=\"Off Off Pod with Stephen Bittrich\" href=\"http:\/\/offoffpod.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\">Off Off Pod<\/a> I interview\u00a0<a title=\"Midnight Express Billy Hayes\" href=\"http:\/\/midnightexpress.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Hayes<\/a>\u00a0who was the inspiration for the 1978 movie <strong><em>Midnight Express<\/em><\/strong> with Brad Davis.<\/p>\n<p>After escaping from a Turkish prison and making his way back to America, Billy wrote a book about his experiences, and Hollywood came a-knocking &#8212; a relatively unknown Oliver Stone wrote the screenplay. Now Billy&#8217;s got a new one-man show which recently previewed in Edinburgh called\u00a0<a title=\"Riding the Midnight Express on Stage\" href=\"http:\/\/midnightexpress.tv\/riding-the-midnight-express\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Riding \u00a0the Midnight Express<\/em><\/a> which talks about some of his life experiences in greater detail.<\/p>\n<p>Billy&#8217;s got some stories! \u00a0Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Also, at the beginning of episode 004 check out my &#8220;ghost&#8221; recording. \u00a0Let me know what you think it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest 2 episodes of Off Off Pod I interview\u00a0Billy Hayes\u00a0who was the inspiration for the 1978 movie Midnight Express with Brad Davis. After escaping from a Turkish prison and making his way back to America, Billy wrote a&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/episodes-003-and-004-of-off-off-pod-released-billy-hayes-author-of-midnight-express\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[92,93,19,94,95,91,96,97,17,98,99,16,18,15,100,101,42,14,9,102],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catch-my-show","category-podcast-off-off-pod","tag-92","tag-academy-award","tag-actor","tag-alan-parker","tag-best-screenplay","tag-billy-hayes","tag-brad-davis","tag-john-hurt","tag-los-angeles","tag-midnight-express","tag-midnight-return","tag-new-york-city","tag-off-off-broadway","tag-off-off-pod","tag-oliver-stone","tag-oscar","tag-playwright","tag-podcast","tag-stephen-bittrich","tag-writer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}