{"id":16223,"date":"2025-12-12T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=16223"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:14:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:14:04","slug":"tis-the-season-to-be-triggered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=16223","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis the season to be triggered"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>For some reason beyond the wit of any rational person, a religious festival celebrating the birth two millennia ago of a man who advocated peace and love seems to call forth a wave of hate and bile from those on the right of the political spectrum, who become more than usually scathing, either bleating that the traditional festival has been <em>cancelled<\/em> or railing against alleged <em>political correctness<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>One of those who has taken to social media to vent her anger is one <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Susan_Hall\">Susan Mary Hall<\/a>, leader of the Conservative group in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/who-we-are\/what-london-assembly-does\">Greater London Authority<\/a>&#8216;s London Assembly.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/hall_ginerbread.png\" alt=\"Post reads: Look at this nonsense- NO - they are gingerbread men!!!\" width=\"434\" height=\"531\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/hall_ginerbread.png 434w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/hall_ginerbread-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Note in particular the use of not one, but three exclamation marks. As for the biscuits being of a male persuasion, I see no evidence of genitalia in their depiction on the packet, Ms Hall!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Neverthless, have a happy Christmas, if you dare allow yourself such a luxury. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason beyond the wit of any rational person, a religious festival celebrating the birth two millennia ago of a man who advocated peace and love seems to call forth a wave of hate and bile from those on the right of the political spectrum, who become more than usually scathing, either bleating that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,34],"tags":[36,16,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-16223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16223","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=16223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16246,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16223\/revisions\/16246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}