{"id":6736,"date":"2015-12-05T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T09:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2015-12-06T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T11:41:02","slug":"spelling-or-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6736","title":{"rendered":"Spelling or sleeping?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a great clanger in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WesternDaily\/status\/673066554079256576\">tweet this morning<\/a> from Bristol&#8217;s Western Daily Press, the sister publication of the Bristol Post (<em>and joint occupier with it of Bristol&#8217;s Temple Way Ministry of Truth. Ed.<\/em>) and likewise subject to many of the latter&#8217;s failings with the English language.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an image of the tweet in question.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/spelt.png\" alt=\"text of tweet reads Simon Cowell&#039;s home gets burgled while he and his family spelt inside\" width=\"600\" height=\"662\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/spelt.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/12\/spelt-272x300.png 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The morals of this tale are clear: if you run a tawdry TV talent show orthography is as dangerous as shut-eye if housebreakers are around; if you run the social media account of a mediocre regional paper, learn to proof-read before posting online*! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>* The spelling error in the tweet originally appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndailypress.co.uk\/Simon-Cowell-s-home-gets-burgled-family-spelt\/story-28303564-detail\/story.html\">article<\/a> itself, but has since been corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a great clanger in a tweet this morning from Bristol&#8217;s Western Daily Press, the sister publication of the Bristol Post (and joint occupier with it of Bristol&#8217;s Temple Way Ministry of Truth. Ed.) and likewise subject to many of the latter&#8217;s failings with the English language. Here&#8217;s an image of the tweet in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,34],"tags":[40,36,16,10,22,33,35],"class_list":["post-6736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-social-media","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736","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=6736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6746,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6736\/revisions\/6746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}