{"id":638,"date":"2004-04-08T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T16:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/04\/psychic_to_solv\/"},"modified":"2004-04-08T16:55:56","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T16:55:56","slug":"psychic_to_solv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/psychic_to_solv\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychic to Solve Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can take a joke as much as the next person, and the fact that loads of people seem to take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingtv.co.uk\/\">Living TV&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingtv.co.uk\/mosthauntedlive\/index.html\">Most Haunted<\/a> seriously is fine by me. There are plenty of people who believe in all sorts of nonsense. I&#8217;m slightly more uneasy about people like John Edwards and his British equivalents who fill up vast amounts of the same channel&#8217;s daytime programming, but I can just about live with it.<br \/>\nBut today&#8217;s Broadcast reports thatn Living are now making a series called <i>Sensing Murder<\/i> in which they&#8217;ll attempt to use psychics to solve police cases from the last 15 years. I really hope that Ofcom come down on this like a ton of bricks. I don&#8217;t care if relatives are willing to let Living go ahead with this nonsense &#8211; it&#8217;s simply giving hope where there is none. Television can help with unsolved crimes, and series like <i>Rough Justice<\/i> freed innocent men and women, sometimes identifying the true culprits at the same time. Just this last week we&#8217;ve had Five catching petty criminals via a gameshow. This is in a different league.<br \/>\nGetting &#8220;in touch&#8221; with murder victims with fraudulent psychics is not something I want to see on TV thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can take a joke as much as the next person, and the fact that loads of people seem to take Living TV&#8217;s Most Haunted seriously is fine by me. There are plenty of people who believe in all sorts of nonsense. I&#8217;m slightly more uneasy about people like John Edwards and his British equivalents [&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\/638"}],"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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}