{"id":29649,"date":"2018-02-24T01:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T00:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/24\/dismayed-to-discover-a-bear-behind-at-the-baftas\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T01:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T00:02:39","slug":"dismayed-to-discover-a-bear-behind-at-the-baftas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=29649","title":{"rendered":"Dismayed to discover a bear behind at the Baftas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I pondered awards shows, curling, fashion, antidepressants and \u2018managed ambitious divergence\u2019MondayI\u2019ve never seen the attraction of awards events on TV. Especially when there is a new episode of Endeavour and a new series of Homeland starting on the other channels at the same time. So it wasn\u2019t hard for me to give the Baftas a miss on Sunday night. There\u2019s only so much confected hysteria I can take. And it\u2019s all so predictable. First the shots of stars, whose faces are vaguely familiar, but whose names all too often escape me, arriving on the red carpet. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/feb\/24\/dismayed-to-discover-a-bear-behind-at-the-baftas\" target=\"_blank\">Dismayed to discover a bear behind at the Baftas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I pondered awards shows, curling, fashion, antidepressants and \u2018managed ambitious divergence\u2019MondayI\u2019ve never seen the attraction of awards events on TV. Especially when there is a new episode of Endeavour and a new series of Homeland starting on the other channels at the same time. So it wasn\u2019t hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}