{"id":327,"date":"2003-06-23T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2003-06-23T11:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/06\/state_of_play_1\/"},"modified":"2003-06-23T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2003-06-23T11:09:24","slug":"state_of_play_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/state_of_play_1\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/drama\/stateofplay\/\">State of Play<\/a> finished last night and it didn&#8217;t pull any punches.<br \/>\nGreat performances all round, and even though it is back for another series, I can&#8217;t see all that many characters beyond the newspaper ones being able to return for it.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d quite happily watch the whole thing again, although I didn&#8217;t feel it was quite as menacing as maybe it could have been. I suppose it would be unrealistic for all the characters to fear for their safety all the time.<br \/>\nHaving said that, I later saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/panorama\/2963866.stm\">Panorama<\/a> investigating gang warfare amongst factions of the UDA in Northern Ireland, and those guys don&#8217;t mess around killing each other off with ease.<br \/>\nIdeas, ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So State of Play finished last night and it didn&#8217;t pull any punches. Great performances all round, and even though it is back for another series, I can&#8217;t see all that many characters beyond the newspaper ones being able to return for it. I&#8217;d quite happily watch the whole thing again, although I didn&#8217;t feel [&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\/327"}],"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=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}