{"id":15219,"date":"2025-03-06T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15219"},"modified":"2025-03-06T19:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:53:35","slug":"all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15219","title":{"rendered":"All day?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A crime against the English language appeared in my social media feed today. It loomed out of a photograph of part of the menu from an unidentified McDonald&#8217;s drive through somewhere in the United States.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_15251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15251\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/all_day.jpg\" alt=\"Menu for All Day Breakfast, but served ONLY UNTIL 1PM\" width=\"575\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/all_day.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/03\/all_day-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dies irae* if you roll up at 1.01 pm?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It centres on the use of the word <em>day<\/em> whose meaning for this context is provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/day\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote>&#8220;the time of light between one night and the next&#8221;.<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>When combined with the words <em>all<\/em> and <em>breakfast<\/em> one would expect the fare proffered to be provided throughout the hours of daylight between sunrise and sunset; or at the very least to be available between the business&#8217; opening and closing times.\r\n\r\n<\/p><p>Not &#8220;ONLY UNTIL 1PM&#8221; as the menu shouts loudly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The picture seems to have been taken some while ago, as the price of eggs in the USA has rocketed due to avian influenza and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eatthis.com\/walmart-limits-egg-purchases\/\">Walmart is rationing egg purchases<\/a>. The egg shortage has not gone unnoticed under the golden arches either: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/mcdonalds-egg-mcmuffin-leaves-customer-stunned-outrageous-pricing-1865170\">Newsweek reports<\/a> a customer of a McDonald&#8217;s in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fairfield,_Connecticut\">Fairfield, Connecticut<\/a> was charged $7.29 per Egg McMuffin and complained about it on social media.<\/p> \r\n\r\n<p>* = Day of wrath (<em>usually divine. Ed<\/em>.).<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crime against the English language appeared in my social media feed today. It loomed out of a photograph of part of the menu from an unidentified McDonald&#8217;s drive through somewhere in the United States. It centres on the use of the word day whose meaning for this context is provided by Merriam-Webster: &#8220;the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34],"tags":[36,16,25,22,35],"class_list":["post-15219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-food","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15219","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=15219"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15261,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15219\/revisions\/15261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}