{"id":2361,"date":"2008-09-18T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2008\/09\/ray_mears_v_bea\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T09:19:21","slug":"ray_mears_v_bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/ray_mears_v_bea\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Mears v Bear Grylls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how I love watching Bear Grylls&#8217; programmes &#8211; particularly since he had to tone down what he was claiming in his second series of Born Survivor.<br \/>\nBack in May, when Ray Mears was promoting his latest series &#8211; set in the Australian outback &#8211; he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/celebritynews\/1989977\/TV-survivial-expert-Ray-Mears-attacks-rival-showman-Bear-Grylls.html\">laughed off<\/a> Grylls. Now Grylls is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/sep\/18\/television.television\">conceding defeat<\/a> in the battle of TV survivalists. Grylls has a new series of Born Survivor starting on Discovery next week and C4 in October.<br \/>\nThis sounds like the perfect opportunity for a Children in Need or Comic Relief stand-off: first person to Uluru or the North Pole is the winner. Something like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how I love watching Bear Grylls&#8217; programmes &#8211; particularly since he had to tone down what he was claiming in his second series of Born Survivor. Back in May, when Ray Mears was promoting his latest series &#8211; set in the Australian outback &#8211; he laughed off Grylls. Now Grylls is conceding defeat [&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\/2361"}],"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=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}