{"id":613,"date":"2007-09-25T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2007-09-25T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T11:51:00","slug":"spurious-betting-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/09\/spurious-betting-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurious betting game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">W<\/span>ho will take over at the Beeb when <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mark Thompson<\/span> gets a call from a search firm specialising in thankless tasks and decides to call it a day? I\u2019m not given to betting, but were I the wagering type I think I\u2019d see what odds I could get on news boss <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Helen Boaden<\/span> being <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Director-General<\/span> by this time next year. I should add, my track record on these kinds of spurious predictions is lamentable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who will take over at the Beeb when Mark Thompson gets a call from a search firm specialising in thankless tasks and decides to call it a day? I\u2019m not given to betting, but were I the wagering type I think I\u2019d see what odds I could get on news boss Helen Boaden being Director-General [&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":[15],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bbc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","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=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}