{"id":2558,"date":"2013-08-27T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2013-08-31T13:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T13:11:48","slug":"the-art-of-the-newspaper-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2558","title":{"rendered":"The art of the newspaper headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I volunteered many years ago on producing Planet Easton &#8211; a community newspaper for my part of Bristol &#8211; one of the hardest tasks for the editorial team was devising headlines for articles.<\/p>\n<p>However, one unnamed employee at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/\">The Argus<\/a> in Brighton deserves a special mention for the example below, a fine example of the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/alliteration?q=alliteration\">alliteration<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/homophone\">homophones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/08\/brighton_argus1.jpeg\" alt=\"image of poster featuring Brighton Argus headline\" width=\"567\" height=\"786\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/08\/brighton_argus1.jpeg 567w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/08\/brighton_argus1-216x300.jpeg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beat that, Bristol Post! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I volunteered many years ago on producing Planet Easton &#8211; a community newspaper for my part of Bristol &#8211; one of the hardest tasks for the editorial team was devising headlines for articles. However, one unnamed employee at The Argus in Brighton deserves a special mention for the example below, a fine example of [&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":[40,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-bristol","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}