{"id":1023,"date":"2011-02-07T20:18:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T19:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2011-02-07T20:18:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T19:18:29","slug":"i-have-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/i-have-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"I have to ask&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.with all that is going on in the World today why is this the most read story on the BBC &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/most_popular.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1022\" title=\"most_popular\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/most_popular.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/most_popular.jpg 354w, https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/most_popular-300x106.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/> <\/a>Are people so shallow that the most important thing they want to read about is some singer who can&#8217;t remember the words to a song at some ball game* When I saw the headline this more my first reaction was &#8220;so what?&#8221; 12 hours later it&#8217;s still the most read story. We do live in a strange old World \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><em>*disclaimer, to all my friends in America, I know the odd person over there considers the Super Bowl to be more than &#8216;some ball game&#8217; I&#8217;ve yet to see one to know the appeal.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.with all that is going on in the World today why is this the most read story on the BBC &#8211; Are people so shallow that the most important thing they want to read about is some singer who can&#8217;t remember the words to a song at some ball game* When I saw the headline this more my first reaction was &#8220;so what?&#8221; 12 hours later it&#8217;s still the most read story. We do live in a strange old World \ud83d\ude09 *disclaimer, to all my friends in America, I know&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}