{"id":448,"date":"2011-03-03T15:24:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=448"},"modified":"2011-03-03T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T14:24:25","slug":"jamies-nighmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/03\/03\/jamies-nighmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie's Nighmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Jamie Oliver's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/8357418\/Jamies-Dream-School-Channel-4-review.html\">Dream School<\/a> unfold last night with the same sort of awful anticipation that is normally reserved for a slow-motion crash: a totally debilitating mixture of fascination and horror. \u00a0Of course, it was all set up for the usual TV confrontation that passes for \"reality\" these days: where a cohort of stroppy youth meets a cadre of unskilled celebrities \u2013 unskilled, that is, in teaching the kind of young people that had been rounded up for this exercise by cynical TV executives. \u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px\">Just what all this is supposed to illustrate is beyond me, other than the medium's endless re-invention of new ways to exploit and diminish people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px\">I shall be watching next week, however, if only to see what should be the confrontation of the series: David Starkey taking on the headteacher whose values are obviously incompatible. \u00a0My money's on Starkey, I have to say, as he never knowingly shies away from a confrontation, whereas the headteacher, judging by what we've seen so far is quite good at it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px\">As for Jamie, well, there's always restauranting to fall back on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13.3333px\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Jamie Oliver's Dream School unfold last night with the same sort of awful anticipation that is normally reserved for a slow-motion crash: a totally debilitating mixture of fascination and horror. \u00a0Of course, it was all set up for...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}