{"id":380,"date":"2015-03-31T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T09:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=380"},"modified":"2015-03-31T09:26:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T09:26:46","slug":"clarkson-sacked-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"Clarkson Sacked, Etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure most of you know that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was sacked after a &#8220;fracas&#8221; with a producer.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s sad that the BBC chose a resolution that punishes pretty much anyone who likes the show. Clarkson, I suspect, will simply move on to somewhere else while enjoying a larger paycheck, and it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if Andy Wilman (Top Gear producer), James May and Richard Hammond joined him to create a new show.<\/p>\n<p>The old Top Gear, however, will have to reinvent itself, with new presenters and angry fans less likely to keep on watching. I&#8217;m pretty sure that the fantastic 350 million viewers worldwide every week figure will soon be a thing of the past and the BBC will have to get that particular piece of their weekly budget from somewhere else. Mainly, I suspect, from the viewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure most of you know that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson was sacked after a &#8220;fracas&#8221; with a producer. I think it&#8217;s sad that the BBC chose a resolution that punishes pretty much anyone who likes the show. Clarkson, I suspect, will simply move on to somewhere else while enjoying a larger paycheck, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[193,68,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}