{"id":5059,"date":"2011-12-29T23:12:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2011-12-29T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T23:15:12","slug":"worlds-strongest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5059","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Strongest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Five are showing this year&#8217;s World&#8217;s Strongest Man (hint: if you don&#8217;t want the result spoilt, don&#8217;t search for World&#8217;s Strongest Man on Youtube. Or Google as well, probably). It&#8217;s entertaining, but in becoming more like a &#8220;proper&#8221; sport quite a lot of the fun these days has been sucked out of the event staging &#8211; instead of a large dumbbell which weighed the same as a motorbike, why isn&#8217;t it actually a motorbike?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a documentary on the competition&#8217;s glory days:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zktHFJKmL8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>IN OTHER NEWS, I successfully defended another \u00a311 from all comers, and I have added it to the BotherSOP\u00a0winner&#8217;s pot which I intend to take home in June. But would you like one final chance to win some money to enter the BotherSOP for real? David Bodycombe and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukgameshows.com\">UKGameshows.com<\/a> is stumping up a whopping \u00a350 in prizemoney for one final freeroll event next Thursday, the 5th January at 8pm. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=5000\">All the\u00a0details!<\/a>\u00a0You can now buy into the first event proper on Sunday 8th January as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Five are showing this year&#8217;s World&#8217;s Strongest Man (hint: if you don&#8217;t want the result spoilt, don&#8217;t search for World&#8217;s Strongest Man on Youtube. Or Google as well, probably). It&#8217;s entertaining, but in becoming more like a &#8220;proper&#8221; sport quite a lot of the fun these days has been sucked out of the event\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5059\">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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bother-series-of-poker","category-fun-thing-found-on-youtube"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-1jB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","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=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}