{"id":13761,"date":"2021-09-10T17:07:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13761"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:07:51","slug":"what-a-pity-hes-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13761","title":{"rendered":"What a pity he&#8217;s 82"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"13762\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=13762\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sirtrev.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sirtrev\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sirtrev.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sirtrev-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sirtrev-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sirtrev-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sirtrev-660x440.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sirtrev.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Watched the C4 <em>Black to Front<\/em> <strong>Countdown<\/strong> special today hosted by Sir Trevor MacDonald and he was brilliant at it, like he&#8217;d been doing it for years. In fact he&#8217;s one of those names where you wonder if he&#8217;d ever been in the running before because you think about it as an idea and it takes no time at all to come to the conclusion &#8220;yeah that sounds right.&#8221; He&#8217;d probably have made a brilliant full time host for it around a decade ago, but seeing as we had a question mark over Anne Robinson taking the job at 76 this would be an even more difficult square to circle. You wouldn&#8217;t think it by watching though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cannot claim to be a <em>Countdown<\/em> aficionado but found this to be an extremely fun episode, with some great solves by Dr Anne-Marie Imafridon on numbers games that looked like they should have been easy but aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watched the C4 Black to Front Countdown special today hosted by Sir Trevor MacDonald and he was brilliant at it, like he&#8217;d been doing it for years. In fact he&#8217;s one of those names where you wonder if he&#8217;d ever been in the running before because you think about it as an idea and it\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13761\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3zX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}