{"id":3643,"date":"2011-05-11T23:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T22:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2011-05-11T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T22:10:15","slug":"show-discussion-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"Show discussion: Impossible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3644\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=3644\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=3644\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffey.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"escoffey\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffey.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3644\" title=\"escoffey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/escoffey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>Thursday at 10pm on Five.<\/p>\n<p>Mindreader and illusionist Philip Escoffey challenges members of the public to determine if things he can claim he can do are possible or impossible. Each dilemma is worth an increasing amount of cash.<\/p>\n<p>When I first heard about the show I said (and you can look this up if you want) that it&#8217;s basically going to be a big money version of that thing Derren Brown did on <em>Mind Control\u00a0<\/em>with the money in the envelopes where he tries to persuade people to pick the wrong envelope. Well, this does indeed appear to be the show&#8217;s endgame. The best strategy will probably be ignore everything he says and just pick\u00a0a briefcase\u00a0on some sort of ibble-dibble system, but there we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday at 10pm on Five. Mindreader and illusionist Philip Escoffey challenges members of the public to determine if things he can claim he can do are possible or impossible. Each dilemma is worth an increasing amount of cash. When I first heard about the show I said (and you can look this up if you\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3643\">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":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-show-discussion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-WL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643","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=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}