{"id":286054,"date":"2026-01-15T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/286054\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:38:09","slug":"eilis-ohanlon-pole-to-pole-feels-like-a-penance-and-will-smith-is-so-likeable-you-want-him-to-gain-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/286054\/","title":{"rendered":"Eilis O\u2019Hanlon: Pole to Pole feels like a penance, and Will Smith is so likeable you want him to gain liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nTelevision reviews\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Smith in Antarctica on his 'Pole to Pole' trip. Photo: National Geographic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SF Will 2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Will Smith in Antarctica on his &#8216;Pole to Pole&#8217; trip. Photo: National Geographic<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Imagine my joy\u2026 er\u2026 I mean disappointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There I was, on the sofa, dutifully waiting for the launch of a new season of Love Island: All Stars, only to discover that it had been cancelled due to wildfires near the villa in South Africa where the show is filmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Television reviews Will Smith in Antarctica on his &#8216;Pole to Pole&#8217; trip. Photo: National Geographic Imagine my joy\u2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[33200,18,117,19,17,23942,1181,8336,23668],"class_list":{"0":"post-286054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eilis-ohanlon","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-people-culture-magazine","14":"tag-rte","15":"tag-tg4","16":"tag-will-smith"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115900101691890675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}