{"id":4837,"date":"2004-02-09T21:15:22","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2004-02-09T21:15:22","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T20:15:22","slug":"im-a-celebrity-get-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/02\/09\/im-a-celebrity-get-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Celebrity, Get A Life&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here&#8230; has been attracting audiences in the order of twelve million viewers. How long is the programme? 30 minutes? Let&#8217;s do some mathematics:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">12,000,000 people x 30 minutes each = 360,000,000 minutes<\/p>\n<p>360,000,000 minutes equates to 6,000,000 hours<\/p>\n<p>6,000,000 hours is equivalent to 250,000 days.<\/p>\n<p>250,000 days is roughly 684 years.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>684 years<\/b>. Think about it. Surely humankind could put this time to better use? Just think &#8211; if everyone sat down for half an hour, just once a year, and did something useful, or at least thought about something useful, the world would surely be a better place. I&#8217;m not expecting Celebrity viewers to solve the world&#8217;s ills, but surely their collective brain power could do something useful like inventing a method for opening tin cans that means that the sauce in my chopped tomatoes doesn&#8217;t splatter all over the kitchen worktop. Then again, they probably couldn&#8217;t even manage that. Mind you, the heat from their brains all simultaneously struggling to think could be enough to heat a small town without the use of fossil fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here&#8230; has been attracting audiences in the order of twelve million viewers. How long is the programme? 30 minutes? Let&#8217;s do some mathematics: 12,000,000 people x 30 minutes each = 360,000,000 minutes 360,000,000 minutes equates to 6,000,000 hours 6,000,000 hours is equivalent to 250,000 days. 250,000 days is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}