{"id":900,"date":"2006-12-20T08:52:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T08:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/numb3rs\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T08:52:42","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T08:52:42","slug":"numb3rs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willhowells.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/12\/20\/numb3rs\/","title":{"rendered":"Numb3rs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw part of an episode of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.imdb.com\/title\/tt0433309\/\">Numb3rs<\/a><\/em> last week. The show is about a mathematician who solves crimes with the FBI, which, believe it or not, doesn&#8217;t actually appeal to me. It seems a bit sub-<em>Monk<\/em> and the 3 in the title is just wrong. 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