{"id":300,"date":"2006-08-21T12:24:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T12:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/21\/are-you-dave-gorman\/"},"modified":"2011-03-08T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T09:31:00","slug":"are-you-dave-gorman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/21\/are-you-dave-gorman\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Dave Gorman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image299\" height=96 alt=\"Are Uou Dave Gorman?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/dave_gorman_thumb.jpg\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>I watched the TV show <strong>The Dave Gorman Collection<\/strong> some time ago, but I&#8217;ve only just got around to reading the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0091884713\">Are You Dave Gorman?<\/a> I guess that technically I didn&#8217;t really need to read the book, but I was interested in all the extra detail that the book would afford.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I really enjoyed it. Funny all the way through. And all those extra little details are really worth the read. For those not familiar with the TV show or the Book. <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Dave Gorman\" title=\"Dave Gorman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave%20Gorman\" rel=\"tag\">Dave Gorman<\/a> ends up trying to win a bet against his flat mate <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Danny Wallace\" title=\"Danny Wallace\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny%20Wallace\" rel=\"tag\">Danny Wallace<\/a> that he can&#8217;t meet 54 other Dave Gormans. It&#8217;s a bet that sees them travelling the world and putting themselves in some very strange situations.<\/p>\n<p>See Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davegorman.com\">Dave Gorman&#8217;s Website<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Dave Gorman\" title=\"Dave Gorman\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Dave%20Gorman\" rel=\"tag\" >Dave Gorman<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Danny Wallace\" title=\"Danny Wallace\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Danny%20Wallace\" rel=\"tag\" >Danny Wallace<\/a><br\/><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Dave Gorman\" title=\"Dave Gorman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dave%20Gorman\">Dave Gorman<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Danny Wallace\" title=\"Danny Wallace\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny%20Wallace\">Danny Wallace<\/a><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/11\/08\/dirty-harry-potter-harry-callahan-and-the-deathly-hallows\/\" title=\"Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.\">Dirty Harry Potter \/ Harry Callahan and the Deathly Hallows.<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/14\/the-man-in-black-fled-across-the-desert-and-the-gunslinger-followed\/\" title=\"The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed\">The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/07\/his-dark-materials\/\" title=\"His Dark Materials\">His Dark Materials<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/11\/26\/gods-behaving-badly-tv\/\" title=\"Gods Behaving Badly&#8230; TV\">Gods Behaving Badly&#8230; TV<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/03\/gods-behaving-badly-3\/\" title=\"Gods Behaving Badly\">Gods Behaving Badly<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the TV show The Dave Gorman Collection some time ago, but I&#8217;ve only just got around to reading the book Are You Dave Gorman? I guess that technically I didn&#8217;t really need to read the book, but I was interested in all the extra detail that the book would afford. Anyway, I really &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/21\/are-you-dave-gorman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are you Dave Gorman&#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":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[229,226],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading","tag-books","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-4Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}