{"id":180,"date":"2008-07-03T08:12:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T08:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2008-07-03T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T08:12:22","slug":"some-people-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-watch-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/some-people-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-watch-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Some people shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to watch TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_WZxb9c6r0YM\/R4D6yKJz68I\/AAAAAAAACPk\/WRX2MhT04SY\/s200\/il_fullxfull.5022082.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" alt=\"willy warmer\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>The people who wrote in to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/7485313.stm\">BBC Trust to complain about Top Gear<\/a> showing an image of a frost bitten willy, and showing Jeremy Clarkson and James May enjoying a glass of rather nice booze as they drove to the North Pole (get that &#8211; they were driving to the North Pole &#8211; in a car &#8211; showing how comfortable it was to do so and that you didn&#8217;t in fact need to do it with a dog sled &#8211; which is hard) should be banned from watching TV.<\/p>\n<p>We should be able to revoke peoples Sky Subscriptions, remove their freeview boxes and ask politely for the return of their TV License.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously folks. It was funny, it wasn&#8217;t dangerous, and it was editorially justified. Get over yourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people who wrote in to the BBC Trust to complain about Top Gear showing an image of a frost bitten willy, and showing Jeremy Clarkson and James May enjoying a glass of rather nice booze as they drove to the North Pole (get that &#8211; they were driving to the North Pole &#8211; in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/some-people-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-watch-tv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some people shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to watch TV&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","tag-top-gear"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}