{"id":462,"date":"2007-06-06T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2007-06-06T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T19:24:00","slug":"dept-of-life-imitating-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/06\/dept-of-life-imitating-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Dept. of Life imitating Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">G<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">uardianista<\/span><\/span> <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/tim_dowling\/profile.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Dowling<\/a> has a novel out about a nearly-40 journo (life issues etc. etc.) who discovers an online community dedicated to ridiculing him. It&#8217;s being serialized <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/extracts\/story\/0,,2095081,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, guess what? Nearly-40 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">BBC<\/span> reporter <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/breakfast\/reporters\/4559613.stm\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Ando<\/a> is living Dowling&#8217;s novel nightmare.<span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<p>His voiceover on <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.five.tv\/\">five<\/a>&#8216;s version of the <a style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_FBI_Files\" target=\"_blank\">FBI Files<\/a> has attracted a mocking student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=2221263989\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Facebook<\/span><\/span> following<\/a>. And now Dowling&#8217;s book means he can&#8217;t even novelize it&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardianista Tim Dowling has a novel out about a nearly-40 journo (life issues etc. etc.) who discovers an online community dedicated to ridiculing him. It&#8217;s being serialized here. Well, guess what? Nearly-40 BBC reporter Ben Ando is living Dowling&#8217;s novel nightmare. His voiceover on five&#8216;s version of the FBI Files has attracted a mocking student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}