{"id":5138,"date":"2010-09-01T12:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2019-08-28T08:25:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:25:36","slug":"the-stig-to-be-unmasked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/09\/01\/the-stig-to-be-unmasked\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Stig&#8221; to be unmasked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/unmasking-the-stig\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a while back<\/a>, the BBC went to court to try to prevent a book publisher from revealing the identity of <em>Top Gear<\/em>&#8216;s mysterious race car driver &#8220;The Stig&#8221;. The court has ruled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-11151777?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">against the BBC<\/a>. James May, one of the presenters on the show, had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously I&#8217;m now going to have to take some legal action of my own, because I have been the Stig for the past seven years, and I don&#8217;t know who this bloke is, who&#8217;s mincing around in the High Court pretending it&#8217;s him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned a while back, the BBC went to court to try to prevent a book publisher from revealing the identity of Top Gear&#8216;s mysterious race car driver &#8220;The Stig&#8221;. The court has ruled against the BBC. James May, one of the presenters on the show, had this to say: &#8220;Obviously I&#8217;m now going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,9,28],"tags":[111,1305,777,101],"class_list":["post-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-law","category-media","tag-cars","tag-jamesmay","tag-topgear","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1kS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50658,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions\/50658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}