{"id":2905,"date":"2013-10-18T08:55:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T08:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2905"},"modified":"2013-10-19T07:53:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T07:53:39","slug":"bristol-post-balls-vowel-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=2905","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Post Balls &#8211; an embarrassing vowel movement in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/10\/CSN.jpg\" alt=\"Crosby Stills &amp; Nash\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2906\" \/>There&#8217;s hardly a day goes by without the Bristol Post screwing up somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Today it features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/REVIEW-Crosby-Stills-Nash-Colston-Hall-4-5\/story-19952809-detail\/story.html\">a glowing review<\/a> of veteran US three part vocal harmony and guitar group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosbystillsnash.com\/\">Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, at one point the language is not so much glowing as glaringly wrong when Mr Harnell trips over a near <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homophone\">homophone<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite hoovering up the Gross National Product of Columbia in his darkest days, David Crosby\u2019s voice remains a thing of wonder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Columbia? <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbia_%28name%29\">The female personification of the United States of America<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I think the reviewer had got his vowels muddled and actually meant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colombia\">Colombia<\/a>, a South American country famous for the supply of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cocaine\">variety of white nasal decongestant<\/a> allegedly enjoyed at one time by Mr Crosby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s hardly a day goes by without the Bristol Post screwing up somewhere. Today it features a glowing review of veteran US three part vocal harmony and guitar group Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash. However, at one point the language is not so much glowing as glaringly wrong when Mr Harnell trips over a near homophone: [&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":[40,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-2905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-bristol","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905","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=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}