{"id":10280,"date":"2021-08-11T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10280"},"modified":"2021-08-11T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:15:49","slug":"how-to-confuse-the-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10280","title":{"rendered":"How to confuse the reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The output of the English Empire&#8217;s free and fearless press has in recent decades undergone several changes: and so it should; they are working with something that is dynamic and ever-changing &#8211; language.<\/p>\r\n<p>One of the most recent of these changes appears to be to attempt to get all the salient facts of a story crammed into its headline. This could have the saving grace of readers being spared plodding through paragraphs of more dreadful prose.<\/p>\r\n<p>Which brings us neatly to yesterday&#8217;s Daily Mail and the fine example below of an overstuffed headline.<\/p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/08\/mail_headine.jpeg\" alt=\"Headline reads: Christine Lampard is left in hysterics as Dr Amir Khan&#039;s mother calls him while he&#039;s live on Lorraine... before a fly shoots up his nose as he drinks Victoria Beckham &#039;moon water&#039;\" width=\"600\" height=\"244\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/08\/mail_headine.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/08\/mail_headine-300x122.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n<p>Are you sure you didn&#8217;t leave out any minor detail that could still have been crammed into the headline, Mail Online? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The output of the English Empire&#8217;s free and fearless press has in recent decades undergone several changes: and so it should; they are working with something that is dynamic and ever-changing &#8211; language. One of the most recent of these changes appears to be to attempt to get all the salient facts of a story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17],"tags":[36,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-10280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10280"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10296,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions\/10296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}