{"id":3682,"date":"2014-02-20T09:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T09:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2014-02-20T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T09:57:09","slug":"bbc-english-getting-the-massage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3682","title":{"rendered":"BBC English &#8211; getting the massage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The media have been awash this morning with reports of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/02\/19\/us-whatsapp-facebook-idUSBREA1I26B20140219\">Facebook&#8217;s acquisition of WhatsApp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp is a mobile messaging company; or it was until the story fell into the hands of the illiterati in the BBC newsroom, who suffered one of their periodic vowel movements. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/bbc_massaging.png\" alt=\"screenshot of BBC News item\" width=\"599\" height=\"654\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/bbc_massaging.png 599w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/bbc_massaging-274x300.png 274w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/about.me\/galagilamat\">Gala Gil Amat<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media have been awash this morning with reports of Facebook&#8217;s acquisition of WhatsApp. WhatsApp is a mobile messaging company; or it was until the story fell into the hands of the illiterati in the BBC newsroom, who suffered one of their periodic vowel movements. \ud83d\ude42 Hat tip: Gala Gil Amat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17],"tags":[16,22,33],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}