{"id":5922,"date":"2012-06-24T13:47:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T12:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2012-06-24T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T12:50:36","slug":"very-much-the-sort-of-thing-we-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5922","title":{"rendered":"Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, there&#8217;s a new show called <strong>The Great Escape<\/strong> beginning on US network TNT this evening.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_zE7mwQoq0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This looks terrific, no?<\/p>\n<p>In other news, very pleased that <strong>Amazing Race Australia<\/strong> did something I thought would have been a good idea years ago\u00a0to get round one of the show&#8217;s more stupid elements &#8211; namely the kicking of teams when they&#8217;re down (who wants an exciting finish anyway?) &#8211; rather than penalize a team behind you at the time,\u00a0teams secretly vote for who they wanted to do a U-turn on the leg\u00a0before catching a plane to the next destination, the results of the U-turn not found out until after the detour so not limiting it to people behind you but any team in the race. A chance to peg back a strong team rather than have a foregone conclusion, doubly helped by having enough of a leg after to\u00a0have a chance of fighting back. Good work Australia, and good work Israel who apparently did it first. Now bloody watch it if you&#8217;re in Australia &#8211; it&#8217;s been moved to Monday nights now and is not rating brilliantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, there&#8217;s a new show called The Great Escape beginning on US network TNT this evening. This looks terrific, no? In other news, very pleased that Amazing Race Australia did something I thought would have been a good idea years ago\u00a0to get round one of the show&#8217;s more stupid elements &#8211; namely the kicking of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=5922\">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-5922","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-1xw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","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=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}