{"id":530,"date":"2008-05-01T08:48:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2008-05-01T08:48:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T07:48:08","slug":"the-apprentice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"The Apprentice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, I love this programme and McIver doesn’t.\u00a0 He watches it under duress.\u00a0 But last nights was a classic.\u00a0 The teams had to devise 2 new occasions for which to sell greetings cards.\u00a0 One bunch of numpties chose “Happy Singles Day” which was to run on 13th February.\u00a0 The day before Valentine’s Day, when the shops are full of slushy shit (I say this, as I never get one, being single).\u00a0 The other bunch of fuckwits chose a card to encourage you to save the environment.\u00a0 I kid you not.\u00a0 “Let’s save the environment – how can we do that?”\u00a0 “I know, send a card to everybody we know telling them to save the environment”.\u00a0 “Great idea”.\u00a0 These people, my dear friends, are future captains of industry.\u00a0 No doubt they will be elevated to top jobs at Northern Rock.\u00a0 Car crash TV, but I am addicted.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a bit of snobbery about watching the Apprentice.\u00a0 It’s Big Brother, suited and booted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now, I love this programme and McIver doesn’t.\u00a0 He watches it under duress.\u00a0 But last nights was a classic.\u00a0 The teams had to devise 2 new occasions for which to sell greetings cards.\u00a0 One bunch of numpties chose “Happy Singles Day” which was to run on 13th February.\u00a0 The day before Valentine’s Day, when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}