{"id":9559,"date":"2021-04-17T12:38:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T12:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=9559"},"modified":"2021-04-17T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:06:28","slug":"street-thesaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=9559","title":{"rendered":"One word English street glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Spotted earlier this week in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stratford,_London\">Stratford<\/a>, London and arriving on my screen via social media.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is believed to have been created by London-based conceptual, video and installation artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Deller\">Jeremy Deller<\/a>, whose work has strong political overtones.<\/p>\r\n<p>Given the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/apr\/16\/boris-johnson-tory-sleaze-greensill\">Conservative government sleaze<\/a> and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ukandeu.ac.uk\/how-corrupt-is-britains-chumocracy\/\"><em>chumocracy<\/em><\/a>&#8221; scandals, no further comment is necessary.<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_9570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9570\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9570\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/04\/cronyism.jpg\" alt=\"Billboard reads Cronysim is English for Corruption\" width=\"600\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/04\/cronyism.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/04\/cronyism-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You tell &#8217;em!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted earlier this week in Stratford, London and arriving on my screen via social media. It is believed to have been created by London-based conceptual, video and installation artist Jeremy Deller, whose work has strong political overtones. Given the current Conservative government sleaze and &#8220;chumocracy&#8221; scandals, no further comment is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,34],"tags":[36,16,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-9559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559","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=9559"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9580,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9559\/revisions\/9580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}