{"id":10340,"date":"2021-09-03T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2021-09-03T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:21:20","slug":"welsh-sheepdog-lives-to-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10340","title":{"rendered":"Welsh sheepdog lives to 89?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another confusing headline from a Reach plc title, this time the Daily Post\/North Wales Live, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/90-year-old-sheepdog-wales-21464462\">this story<\/a> about an 89 year-old sheepdog, an 89 year-old man with werewolf proclivities or something else, which escapes your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s imagination for the time being.<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_10354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10354\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/sheepdog89.png\" alt=\"Headline reads: 89-year-old who caught Covid has just made the Welsh national sheepdog team\" width=\"448\" height=\"436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/sheepdog89.png 448w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/09\/sheepdog89-300x292.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For a sheepdog, he looks remarkably human!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p>I&#8217;m perplexed!<\/p>\r\n<p>However, there is one upside to the policy of Reach titles to cram the whole story into the headline, i.e. one normally doesn&#8217;t have to waste time reading the article.<\/p>\r\n<p>~Are Reach titles operating on the <acronym title=\"Too Long: Don't Read\">TL:DR principle<\/acronym>?<\/p>\r\n<p>Answers in the comments please!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another confusing headline from a Reach plc title, this time the Daily Post\/North Wales Live, with this story about an 89 year-old sheepdog, an 89 year-old man with werewolf proclivities or something else, which escapes your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s imagination for the time being. I&#8217;m perplexed! However, there is one upside to the policy [&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-10340","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\/10340","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=10340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10356,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10340\/revisions\/10356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}