{"id":923,"date":"2011-09-20T13:59:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=923"},"modified":"2011-09-20T13:59:50","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T12:59:50","slug":"offering-bad-advice-to-brad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/09\/20\/offering-bad-advice-to-brad\/","title":{"rendered":"Offering bad Advice to Brad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you'd like to experience a hapless simulation, waste your time, and be frustrated into the bargain, you need look no further than the Met Office's new game, advising Brad the ice cream man on the weather. \u00a0 As the Met Office playfully (that is, risibly) puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Play the Met Office Weather <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoffice.gov.uk\/weather\/weather-game\/\">Game<\/a> to help us find the best way of communicating confidence in weather forecasting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chance would be a fine thing. \u00a0I ploughed my way through all this nonsense and turned out to be \"mediocre\" at forecasting.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the Met Office, I thought as I reflected on the its latest triumph \u2013 \u00a0last night's completely egregious forecast on the BBC's Points West. \u00a0It was a joke \u2013 and I foolishly planned my day around it. \u00a0Will there be an apology? \u00a0 Thought not; where's that seaweed ....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you'd like to experience a hapless simulation, waste your time, and be frustrated into the bargain, you need look no further than the Met Office's new game, advising Brad the ice cream man on the weather. \u00a0 As the...<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","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=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}