{"id":2437,"date":"2008-12-15T08:23:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T08:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2008\/12\/voting_fun\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T08:23:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T08:23:38","slug":"voting_fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/voting_fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Voting Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Strictly adopted the US voting system as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002587.html\">I&#8217;d advocated<\/a>, then it&#8217;s incredibly unlikely this weekend&#8217;s incident would have occurred.<br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t, of course, important. Votes placed will still go to viewers&#8217; favourite dancers. So everyone who&#8217;s saved the BBC or Ofcom&#8217;s phone numbers on speed dial to complain at the drop of a hat should probably take a close look at themselves in the mirror and ask themselves why they actually voted for the programme.<br \/>\nI heard some fool of a woman on the radio saying that she wasn&#8217;t going to watch the final next weekend because she was so upset!<br \/>\nSo she&#8217;s willing to watch the first 13 weeks, but a 15p vote that <I>will still count<\/I> is enough to make her not want to watch the show? (And she&#8217;s so upset, that she got up really early this morning to head to a studio in W12). As William Shatner once said, &#8220;Get a life!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Strictly adopted the US voting system as I&#8217;d advocated, then it&#8217;s incredibly unlikely this weekend&#8217;s incident would have occurred. This isn&#8217;t, of course, important. Votes placed will still go to viewers&#8217; favourite dancers. So everyone who&#8217;s saved the BBC or Ofcom&#8217;s phone numbers on speed dial to complain at the drop of a hat [&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":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-tv"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","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=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}