{"id":7406,"date":"2016-09-17T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T13:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=7406"},"modified":"2016-09-17T13:04:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T13:04:05","slug":"stare-struck-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=7406","title":{"rendered":"Stare-struck hack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modern British society seems obsessed with celebrity culture: this is no more evident than in the mainstream media; and such is true of Bristol&#8217;s (news)paper of (warped) record, the Bristol Post.<\/p>\n<p>It would appear that no sooner does a Z-list non-entity have something to do with the city than the illiterati that constitute the current reporting staff of the Temple Way Ministry of Truth than they are lost for words &#8211; or for <em>le mot juste<\/em> at the very least.<\/p>\n<p>This is evident in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/find-out-how-you-can-share-an-intimate-lunch-with-x-factor-winner-alexandra-burke\/story-29720374-detail\/story.html\">puff piece<\/a> in today&#8217;s online edition featuring some nobody off some dire TV talent show, as per the obligatory screenshot below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/post_staring.png\" alt=\"sentence reads X Factor winner Alexandra Burke, who next week is staring Sister Act at the Bristol Hippodrome, has dropped three dresses sizes in less than six months\" width=\"597\" height=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/post_staring.png 597w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2016\/09\/post_staring-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So Bristol Post, is a nobody off the telly looking intently at a show at the Hippodrome or taking part in it? In the immortal words of Private Eye, I think we should be told.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modern British society seems obsessed with celebrity culture: this is no more evident than in the mainstream media; and such is true of Bristol&#8217;s (news)paper of (warped) record, the Bristol Post. It would appear that no sooner does a Z-list non-entity have something to do with the city than the illiterati that constitute the current [&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":[40,36,16,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-7406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406","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=7406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7428,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7406\/revisions\/7428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}