{"id":6184,"date":"2022-07-26T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2023-01-22T21:59:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T21:59:55","slug":"media-our-man-in-italy-james-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6184","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA: Our Man in Italy, James May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u2018Alcohol is God\u2019s apology for making us self-aware\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_8248.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_8248.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/img_8248-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stars_10_five.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stars_10_five.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/stars_10_five-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was wondering whether to bother with this or not. I\u2019d enjoyed May\u2019s <em>Our Man In Japan<\/em>, so I figured, why ever not? And I\u2019m glad I did. It\u2019s great! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"523\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/JM_LaDolceVida.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/JM_LaDolceVida.jpg 750w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/JM_LaDolceVida-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">May&#8217;s quest for <em>La Dolce Vida<\/em> looks to be going pretty well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>May looks fantastic! Has he lost a bit of weight? His current hair and beard combo is looking better than usual, with a touch of Lord Percy, aka Robert Plant. And he seems happy in himself. All this may sound a bit Hello! magazine. But I think it helps explain May\u2019s enduring (poss\u2019 even expanding?) appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tragically, watching this only accentuates how bone-crunchingly stupid Brexit is. It\u2019s now much harder for ordinary folk like us to visit places such as those James enthusiastically explores. God how I hate Tories and their hordes of zombie enablers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Alcohol is God\u2019s apology for making us self-aware\u2019 I was wondering whether to bother with this or not. I\u2019d enjoyed May\u2019s Our Man In Japan, so I figured, why ever not? And I\u2019m glad I did. It\u2019s great! May looks fantastic! Has he lost a bit of weight? His current hair and beard combo is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA: Our Man in Italy, James May&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1BK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8127,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/8127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}