{"id":20820,"date":"2017-02-01T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20820"},"modified":"2017-02-01T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:58:19","slug":"natural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20820","title":{"rendered":"Natural History"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ObsoletelySky\u2019s Discovery channels often carry a lot of stuff about evolution, which is quite ironic given the reaction by many people on various web forums over the last couple of months to the possibility that the Sky\/Discovery partnership would become extinct at midnight on 31 January 2017.<\/p>\n

I fully accept that there are people out there who are happy to watch 640×480 YouTube videos (or ones they stole on BitTorrent) on their Linux boxes. I also accept that these people are programmed at the genetic level (and they have fewer genes than most anyway) to try to persuade everyone else to do likewise.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t much of a surprise, therefore, to see a number of people announce that they were going to get rid of Sky as a result of all this.<\/p>\n

Except \u2013 and here\u2019s the funny part \u2013 Sky and Discovery came to an agreement sometime late on 31 January<\/a> and ensured the continuation of Discovery channels through Sky for \u201cyears to come\u201d.<\/p>\n

I wonder how many jumped ship before they found out it wasn\u2019t sinking after all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sky\u2019s Discovery channels often carry a lot of stuff about evolution, which is quite ironic given the reaction by many people on various web forums over the last couple of months to the possibility that the Sky\/Discovery partnership would become extinct at midnight on 31 January 2017. I fully accept that there are people out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-tv-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t