{"id":99,"date":"2001-11-14T01:07:30","date_gmt":"2001-11-14T01:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-99.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"faking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2001\/11\/14\/faking-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Faking it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most entertaining shows on British TV at the moment has got to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\">Channel 4<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Faking It<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In each episode, an ordinary person is given four weeks to become skilled enough in a different job to be able to &#8220;fake it&#8221; with the top professionals in that field.  At the end of each episode, this person is placed up against these same top professionals in a contest.  The contest judges aren&#8217;t told that an imposter is taking part until they&#8217;ve made their decision on who is the best.<\/p>\n<p>This week, an Irish farm hand was taken to London, and trained to be a hair dresser.  Although the judges thought his work was good, all of them picked him out afterwards as being the impostor.  Last week, however, a burger-flipper and dish-washer was trained up to be a head chef, and given a team of kitchen staff to run in a coooking contest.  Not only did the judges award him first place, but none of them guessed that he was the plant.<\/p>\n<p>I find the show interesting not only because of the challenge the subject is given, but also because it gives a sideways-looking insight into the professions being targeted.  It&#8217;s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, they&#8217;re training someone to be a pro wrestler!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most entertaining shows on British TV at the moment has got to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\">Channel 4<\/a>&#8216;s <i>Faking It<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}