{"id":1588,"date":"2006-07-31T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T14:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/07\/noel_edmonds\/"},"modified":"2006-07-31T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T14:09:43","slug":"noel_edmonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/noel_edmonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Noel Edmonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note that the Daily Mail serialised Noel Edmonds&#8217; new book &#8220;Positively Happy&#8221; last week, having first apologised for something they said about it. Edmonds talks about this in an interview with The Guardian today.<br \/>\nAll very lovely, but I had a bit of a flick through the book yesterday in a shop. OK &#8211; so I&#8217;m not exactly going to be a believer of the book &#8220;Cosmic Ordering&#8221; that&#8217;s seemingly responsible for his career revival (I mean, that wouldn&#8217;t be due to an insanely popular gameshow format that was storming the world, was inevitably going to end up in the UK, and one way or another was going to need a television presenter &#8211; Edmonds being a television presenter). But even a two-second flick through &#8220;Positively Happy&#8221; reveals it to be incredibly flimsy.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve no interest in the content obviously, but it costs &pound;9.99 runs to around 140 pages, and the columns are narrow, and the lines nicely spaced apart. It&#8217;s the sort of thing you&#8217;d do if you wanted to make your essay seem really long for your coursework.<br \/>\nMind you, if the Daily Mail serialised it over five days, there probably isn&#8217;t much left to read.<br \/>\nIncidentally, no links to any of these books, because I&#8217;d hope that no readers of this blog would ever read such tosh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note that the Daily Mail serialised Noel Edmonds&#8217; new book &#8220;Positively Happy&#8221; last week, having first apologised for something they said about it. Edmonds talks about this in an interview with The Guardian today. All very lovely, but I had a bit of a flick through the book yesterday in a shop. OK &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}