{"id":297,"date":"2003-06-02T09:33:25","date_gmt":"2003-06-02T09:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/06\/state_of_play\/"},"modified":"2003-06-02T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2003-06-02T09:33:25","slug":"state_of_play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/state_of_play\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quite enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/drama\/stateofplay\/\">State of Play<\/a> on BBC1, or in particular, BBC4, since they show the following week&#8217;s episodes, and once you get caught in that cycle, you&#8217;re not going to leave it.<br \/>\nThe fact that it stars both Kelly McDonald and Polly Walker, was always going to make it must see, but it&#8217;s a great conspiracy thriller, set in a relatively believable world.<br \/>\nThe paper all the action takes place in is called, <i>The Herald<\/i>, not to be confused with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/\">Glasgow based publication<\/a> that until recently was owned by my employees. I read a couple of pieces by journalists extolling the fine virtues of <i>The Herald<\/i>, and how it seems so much better than where they work.<br \/>\nSo it was interesting in last night&#8217;s BBC4 episode that a paper that could hitherto have been the Scott Trust owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\">Guardian<\/a>, suddenly had a proprieter emerging, capping expenditure on the story, and thus effectively killing it off. The media group were planning to bid for forthcoming radio licences!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m quite enjoying State of Play on BBC1, or in particular, BBC4, since they show the following week&#8217;s episodes, and once you get caught in that cycle, you&#8217;re not going to leave it. The fact that it stars both Kelly McDonald and Polly Walker, was always going to make it must see, but it&#8217;s a [&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\/297"}],"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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}