{"id":588,"date":"2007-09-06T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2007-09-06T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T23:05:00","slug":"endless-amusement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/endless-amusement\/","title":{"rendered":"Endless amusement&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">R<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosie_Boycott\">osie Boycott<\/a> (onetime-<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Indie<\/span> editor) got dumped from <a style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalspy.co.uk\/broadcasting\/a75210\/hells-kitchen-turns-up-the-heat.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hell\u2019s Kitchen<\/a> last night.<\/p>\n<p>With her final words, she summarised the difference between running a newspaper and a restaurant: in a restaurant you want to serve the same piece of lemon tart every night, on a newspaper you want every story to be different&#8230;it keeps you endlessly amused.<\/p>\n<p>What an unwittingly perceptive analysis of the qualities required by good editors &#8211; the need for endless amusement.<\/p>\n<p>If you really want endless amusement, then Tuesday night <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Hell\u2019s Kitchen<\/span> was advertising for viewers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelondonpaper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">London Paper<\/span><\/a>, a News Corp. freesheet. Oh, the irony&#8230;paying for attention in something that\u2019s being given away. Show sponsors MFI had their logo in the very corner of the ad. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/Entertainment\/reality\/hellskitchen\/MarcoPierreWhite\/default.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Marco Pierre White<\/span><\/a> replaces <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gordon Ramsay<\/span> and casts a raddled shadow over the whole gamey show.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">O tempura, o morelles&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosie Boycott (onetime-Indie editor) got dumped from Hell\u2019s Kitchen last night. With her final words, she summarised the difference between running a newspaper and a restaurant: in a restaurant you want to serve the same piece of lemon tart every night, on a newspaper you want every story to be different&#8230;it keeps you endlessly amused. [&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":[],"tags":[243,61],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-ads","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}