{"id":81,"date":"2006-08-04T16:53:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T16:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=81"},"modified":"2006-08-04T16:57:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T16:57:21","slug":"go-the-beeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=81","title":{"rendered":"Go the Beeb!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that a running live written commentary of a sports event would probably be quite boring, but the BBC news site manages to make the commentary as interesting as the game.  Take some of the bits from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/cricket\/england\/5243024.stm\">today&#8217;s cricket game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1539:<\/strong> Pietersen isn&#8217;t bothered tea is imminent and slaps Kaneria over his head for six. The crowd rumble their approval, like 17,000 Sid Jameses who have just clapped eyes on Barbara Windsor&#8217;s behind. Players go off for energy drinks. Pietersen is 82, Bell is nine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1700:<\/strong> Inzamam looks like he&#8217;s got the hump. He&#8217;s got the air of a man who has trodden in some dog&#8217;s business on the way to his daughter&#8217;s wedding. Three from the over and players take drinks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1715:<\/strong> Umar is retained and still bowling liquorice all-sorts. England are happy to milk him tenderly rather than yank his udders off and take four singles from the over.<\/p>\n<p>And so on!  But this isn&#8217;t a one of today, they do this all the time!  Even if I&#8217;ve no interest in the  game I&#8217;ve started scanning the live coverage when I&#8217;m bored just for a laugh.  Superb that they don&#8217;t take themselves seriously.  I hope they keep it up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that a running live written commentary of a sports event would probably be quite boring, but the BBC news site manages to make the commentary as interesting as the game. Take some of the bits from today&#8217;s cricket game: 1539: Pietersen isn&#8217;t bothered tea is imminent and slaps Kaneria over his head for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}