{"id":182,"date":"2007-10-23T10:08:56","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=182"},"modified":"2007-10-23T10:08:56","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T10:08:56","slug":"uktvg2-is-now-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/23\/uktvg2-is-now-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"UKTVG2 is now Dave&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, everybody knows a bloke called Dave, so <em><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Dave (TV channel)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave_%28TV_channel%29\">UKTVG2<\/a><\/em> thought it perfectly suited the blokiness of the channel. They replaced a six syllable channel name with a one syllable one. But it&#8217;s stupid.<br \/>\nIt also leads to some interesting statements like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been watching <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Oz (TV series)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oz_%28TV_series%29\">Oz<\/a> and James on <em>Dave<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; which sounds like you&#8217;ve been buying special gentlemen&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Photography\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photography\">photography<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<em>Dave<\/em> was showing some <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Top Gear (2002 TV series)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_Gear_%282002_TV_series%29\">Top Gear<\/a> last night&#8221; &#8211; which just sounds dodgy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Clearly what we need is a way to italicise things while we speak&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, everybody knows a bloke called Dave, so UKTVG2 thought it perfectly suited the blokiness of the channel. They replaced a six syllable channel name with a one syllable one. But it&#8217;s stupid. It also leads to some interesting statements like: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been watching Oz and James on Dave&#8221; &#8211; which sounds like you&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[84,287,551,866,1049,1247,1562,2083,2214,2267,2360,2362,2534,3045,3105,3120,3130],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gibberish","category-linkage","tag-84","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-business","tag-dave","tag-entertainment","tag-gentlemens-photography","tag-italics","tag-music-2","tag-october","tag-oz","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-religion-and-spirituality","tag-top-gear","tag-tv","tag-uktvg2","tag-united-states","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-2W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}