{"id":2411,"date":"2010-10-28T09:42:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T08:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2010-10-28T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T09:42:21","slug":"unbelievably-poor-questions-of-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2411","title":{"rendered":"Unbelievably poor questions of our time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well done, last night&#8217;s <strong>The Million Pound Drop<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In which of these places did the sun set first today: Rekjavijk, Dubai or Rome?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the contestant ever has to guess the setter&#8217;s intentions than\u00a0the question is\u00a0really poor, and on live primetime TV this is just incredibly embarrassing. There is nothing to suggest whether this meant local time of the places or from the point of the UK. As David B has pointed out, &#8220;today&#8221; is a dangerous word to use when your show is on towards midnight and a question spans many different timezones.<\/p>\n<p>Those contestants would be right to feel a bit aggreved, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well done, last night&#8217;s The Million Pound Drop: &#8220;In which of these places did the sun set first today: Rekjavijk, Dubai or Rome?&#8221; If the contestant ever has to guess the setter&#8217;s intentions than\u00a0the question is\u00a0really poor, and on live primetime TV this is just incredibly embarrassing. There is nothing to suggest whether this meant\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2411\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2411","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-CT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","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=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}