{"id":2401,"date":"2013-07-22T11:41:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2013-08-31T13:16:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:16:53","slug":"bristol-post-balls-4-a-homophone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2401","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Post Balls 4 &#8211; a classic homophone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s cock-up by the Bristol Post, from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/Man-lilo-rescued-drifting-sea-Weston-super-Mare\/story-19551751-detail\/story.html\">story<\/a> entitled &#8216;Man on lilo rescued after drifting out to sea off Weston-super-Mare&#8217;, has gained Bristol&#8217;s newspaper of record a seat in homophone corner.<\/p>\n<p>For the benefit of passing Post journalists a homophone is &#8220;<em>a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of &#8220;rise&#8221;), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or to, two, and too.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s see (<em>or sea. Ed.)<\/em> what landed the Post this particular accolade.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2402\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/homophone.png\" alt=\"screenshot of homophone from Bristol Post\" width=\"482\" height=\"340\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/homophone.png 482w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/07\/homophone-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What did he drift out to see, Bristol Post?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s cock-up by the Bristol Post, from a story entitled &#8216;Man on lilo rescued after drifting out to sea off Weston-super-Mare&#8217;, has gained Bristol&#8217;s newspaper of record a seat in homophone corner. For the benefit of passing Post journalists a homophone is &#8220;a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32],"tags":[40,16,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-bristol","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401","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=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}