{"id":2157,"date":"2013-06-26T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2013-12-17T08:54:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T08:54:37","slug":"politician-let-down-by-poor-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;ll lean you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has written before about politicians&#8217; scrapes with technology and their apparent inability to cope with it (<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=1695\" title=\"The most clueless tweet yet by a politician?\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Below is a screenshot of a tweet (since deleted) by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Selous\">Andrew Selous<\/a>, the Tory MP for South West Bedfordshire commenting on Chancellor of the Exchequer Gideon Osborne&#8217;s comprehensive spending review in the House of Commons earlier today.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2158\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/06\/selous.png\" alt=\"Tweet by Andrew Selous MP\" width=\"545\" height=\"362\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/06\/selous.png 545w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/06\/selous-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tweet by Andrew Selous MP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andrew should also know that the first rule about criticising others&#8217; use of language is to make sure one&#8217;s own is impeccable (<em>but they probably omitted to teach him that at Eton. Ed.<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philgibson01\">Phil Gibson<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has written before about politicians&#8217; scrapes with technology and their apparent inability to cope with it (posts passim). Below is a screenshot of a tweet (since deleted) by Andrew Selous, the Tory MP for South West Bedfordshire commenting on Chancellor of the Exchequer Gideon Osborne&#8217;s comprehensive spending review in the House of Commons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,34,9],"tags":[16,10,22,20,35,23],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","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=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}