{"id":1493,"date":"2006-05-18T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T10:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/05\/avoiding_channe\/"},"modified":"2006-05-18T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T10:36:35","slug":"avoiding_channe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/avoiding_channe\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Channel Four For The Next Three Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the ad on the back page of today&#8217;s Guardian is anything to go by, it looks like I&#8217;m going to be avoiding Channel 4 even more than usual for the next three months. Meanwhile on the other side, ITV are somehow stretching out a celebrity football match into a week long event. So I&#8217;ll be giving that a miss. Then there&#8217;s &#8220;Celebrity Love Island&#8221; which involves neither celebrities nor love.<br \/>\nI suggest doing one of the following instead:<br \/>\n<UL><LI>Watch the World Cup. And not just the England games. It&#8217;ll be good!<br \/>\n<LI>Read the Aventis Prize winner &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0349117667\">Electric Universe<\/a><br \/>\n<LI>Enjoy the sun &#8211; we&#8217;re suffering a draught you know<br \/>\n<LI>Go and see a decent film like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0475276\/\">United 93<\/a><br \/>\n<LI>Watch a cult DVD boxset like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play.com\/DVD\/DVD\/4-\/1020912\/-\/Product.html?searchstring=adam+adamant\">Adam Adamant Lives!<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.play.com\/DVD\/DVD\/4-\/1020916\/The_Andromeda_Anthology\/Product.html\">Andromeda Anthology<\/a><br \/>\n<LI>Why don&#8217;t you switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead?<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the ad on the back page of today&#8217;s Guardian is anything to go by, it looks like I&#8217;m going to be avoiding Channel 4 even more than usual for the next three months. Meanwhile on the other side, ITV are somehow stretching out a celebrity football match into a week long event. So I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}