{"id":7187,"date":"2016-06-03T14:22:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T14:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2016-06-03T14:23:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T14:23:46","slug":"bristol-post-balls-man-concealed-by-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=7187","title":{"rendered":"Bristol Post balls &#8211; man concealed by sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of the illiteracy of the Bristol Post &#8211; the city&#8217;s newspaper of warped record &#8211; is the unintentional humour the manifestations of that lack of skill inspire.<\/p>\n<p>Such an instance occurred yesterday when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/Bristol-man-survived-Birmingham-pub-bombings\/story-29348756-detail\/story.html\">Post reported<\/a>, with a local angle of course, on the reopening of the inquest into the victims of the Birmingham pub bombing by the IRA on 21st November 1974.<\/p>\n<p>One of the survivors &#8211; Frank Thomas &#8211; now happens to live in Bristol and the Post&#8217;s reported duly managed to get rumble and rubble confused, as shown in the following screenshot of the article&#8217;s first paragraph.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/post_rumble.png\" alt=\"text in image reads For 20 minutes Frank Thomas lay hidden under rumble while emergency services struggled to rescue bodies from a Birmingham pub\" width=\"600\" height=\"52\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/post_rumble.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/06\/post_rumble-300x26.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Should any passing Post hack wish to avoid future confusion, the definitions of rumble and rubble are helpfully transcribed below from <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/\">Cambridge Dictionaries Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rumble<\/em> (n.) &#8211; a low continuous sound.<\/p>\n<p><em>Rubble<\/em> (n.) the piles of broken stone and bricks, etc. that are left when a building falls down or is destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the joys of the illiteracy of the Bristol Post &#8211; the city&#8217;s newspaper of warped record &#8211; is the unintentional humour the manifestations of that lack of skill inspire. Such an instance occurred yesterday when the Post reported, with a local angle of course, on the reopening of the inquest into the victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,17],"tags":[40,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-7187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-bristol","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187","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=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7200,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}