{"id":2773,"date":"2013-09-21T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2013-09-21T08:28:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T08:28:21","slug":"bristol-post-balls-spelling-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Post Balls &#8211; spelling it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday saw the launch of the latest Apple iPhone models &#8211; the 5C and 5S &#8211; when scores of people with more money than sense queued overnight to make an elitist US technology company even richer.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally the Bristol Post covered it in Friday&#8217;s edition as there&#8217;s an Apple shop in Bristol&#8217;s monument to Mammon otherwise known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cabot_Circus\">Cabot Circus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Post&#8217;s coverage consisted of a photo gallery, which featured as follows in its news section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/09\/post_queue.png\" alt=\"screenshot of Bristol Post gallery item\" width=\"320\" height=\"408\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/09\/post_queue.png 320w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/09\/post_queue-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How does one spell queue? Certainly not how the Post has done.<\/p>\n<p>This crime against orthography is also perpetuated on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/pictures\/PHOTOS-Iphone-ques-outside-Apple-shop-Cabot\/pictures-19822872-detail\/pictures.html\">gallery page itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday saw the launch of the latest Apple iPhone models &#8211; the 5C and 5S &#8211; when scores of people with more money than sense queued overnight to make an elitist US technology company even richer. Naturally the Bristol Post covered it in Friday&#8217;s edition as there&#8217;s an Apple shop in Bristol&#8217;s monument to Mammon [&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-2773","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\/2773","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=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2779,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}