{"id":35,"date":"2002-11-29T09:49:02","date_gmt":"2002-11-29T08:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pete.nu\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2007-12-07T14:27:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T14:27:50","slug":"rumours-about-david-beckham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2002\/11\/29\/rumours-about-david-beckham\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumours about David Beckham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orange-today.co.uk\/news\/story\/sm_718175.html\">David Beckham has issued a statement to say there was &#8220;absolutely no truth&#8221; in rumours about him on the internet.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s not so simple as this. Apparently, no-one is allowed to even mention this rumour, as it will result in legal action. So what we effectively have here is a case of &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;ve heard about me, but whatever it is, it isn&#8217;t true!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of knowing what this rumour actually is, I have been forced to make a few up.<\/p>\n<p>* David Beckham is 45 years old<br \/>\n* David Beckham shares 40% of his DNA with goats<br \/>\n* Under his skin, David Beckham is actually composed entirely of anhydrous Copper Sulphate (CuSO<sub>4<\/sub>), and if water were to penetrate his skin then it would initiate an exothermic reaction and he would turn bright blue (CuSO<sub>4<\/sub>.5H<sub>2<\/sub>O).<br \/>\n* David Beckham created a robotic replica of himself back in 1998, and has actually not left Detroit since then.<br \/>\n* David Beckham always keeps a rasher of bacon in his left shoe for luck.<br \/>\n* David Beckham has to shave the left side of his face three times as often as the right side of his face.<br \/>\n* David Beckham&#8217;s pecker is made of gooooold.<br \/>\n* David Beckham once got into a fight with Charlotte Church. Apparently it was only broken up when he pulled a knife.<br \/>\n* David Beckham has only four toes on his right foot.<br \/>\n* David Beckham has never been to Iceland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Beckham has issued a statement to say there was &#8220;absolutely no truth&#8221; in rumours about him on the internet. However, it&#8217;s not so simple as this. Apparently, no-one is allowed to even mention this rumour, as it will result in legal action. So what we effectively have here is a case of &#8220;I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[94,124],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inthenews","tag-beckham","tag-charlotte-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}