{"id":3340,"date":"2013-12-27T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T08:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2016-03-01T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T10:17:34","slug":"its-post-christmas-sales-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s post-Christmas sales time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the centre of Manchester on Boxing Day (allegedly)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_7024\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7024\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/12\/trashumancia_600px.jpg\" alt=\"sheep in central Madrid\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/12\/trashumancia_600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2013\/12\/trashumancia_600px-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7024\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThis scene was probably repeated in every large town and city in the UK yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Such uncritical and unquestioning behaviour has given rise to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/portmanteau+word\">portmanteau word<\/a> &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sheeple\">sheeple<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/tripemarketingboard.co.uk\/\">Tripe Marketing Board<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the centre of Manchester on Boxing Day (allegedly)&#8230; This scene was probably repeated in every large town and city in the UK yesterday. Such uncritical and unquestioning behaviour has given rise to the portmanteau word &#8216;sheeple&#8216;. Hat tip: Tripe Marketing Board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[36,16],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","tag-comment","tag-english-usage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","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=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}