{"id":6964,"date":"2013-02-05T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2013-02-05T17:58:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:58:07","slug":"ahead-of-the-game-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6964","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of the game, as ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So! About a week ago I was watching <strong>Britain&#8217;s Brightest<\/strong> on catch-up as you do (or not) and said the following things on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Britain\u2019s Brightest might have more appeal if they angled it as \u2018The Next Sherlock\u2019 and played the games with more of an emphasis\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brig Bother (@BothersBar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BothersBar\/status\/295581912221745153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2026on observation and deductive reasoning. And was on a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brig Bother (@BothersBar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BothersBar\/status\/295581988209963008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And was a bit like The Master Spy.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brig Bother (@BothersBar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BothersBar\/status\/295582104257982464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Ello &#8216;ello &#8216;ello, <a href=\"http:\/\/buzzerblog.com\/2013\/02\/abc-mystery\/\">what&#8217;s all this that&#8217;s turned up at Buzzerblog today then<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Also <strong>Robot Combat League<\/strong> which <a href=\"http:\/\/buzzerblog.com\/2013\/02\/gallery-previews-of-syfys-robot-combat-league-too-cool-to-ignore\/\">looks absolutely terrific<\/a>. Starts in the US Feb 26th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So! About a week ago I was watching Britain&#8217;s Brightest on catch-up as you do (or not) and said the following things on Twitter: Britain\u2019s Brightest might have more appeal if they angled it as \u2018The Next Sherlock\u2019 and played the games with more of an emphasis\u2026 &mdash; Brig Bother (@BothersBar) January 27, 2013 \u2026on\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=6964\">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-6964","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-1Ok","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","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=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}