{"id":1695,"date":"2013-04-27T15:23:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T15:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2013-12-17T09:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T09:01:05","slug":"the-dumbest-political-tweet-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"The most clueless tweet yet by a politician?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians are not renowned for their use of either modern technology or social media. As regards the latter, this was previously noted by tech humour site <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">xkcd<\/a> with the &#8220;Clueless Politician Coast&#8221; on the island of Twitter on its <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/802\/\">Updated Online Communities map<\/a> in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>If proof were needed of this cluelessness, this was happily provided today by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maria_Miller\">Maria Miller MP<\/a>, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/04\/mm.png\" alt=\"screenshot of tweet from Maria Miller MP\" width=\"449\" height=\"205\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/04\/mm.png 449w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/04\/mm-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Case proven, m&#8217;lud?<\/p>\n<p>Those with memories capable of coping with more than 140 characters &#8211; 138 more than used by Ms Miller &#8211; may recall she was the MP who thought it was perfectly in order for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/jameskirkup\/100194143\/maria-miller-cant-even-explain-her-own-decisions-on-expenses-this-wont-end-well\/\">taxpayers to provide her parents with somewhere to live<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians are not renowned for their use of either modern technology or social media. As regards the latter, this was previously noted by tech humour site xkcd with the &#8220;Clueless Politician Coast&#8221; on the island of Twitter on its Updated Online Communities map in 2010. If proof were needed of this cluelessness, this was happily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,34,9],"tags":[10,20,35,23],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-facepalm","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","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=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3229,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/3229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}