{"id":14513,"date":"2013-05-16T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T11:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2013\/05\/16\/14513.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T00:06:18","slug":"the-news-sporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2013\/05\/16\/the-news-sporting\/","title":{"rendered":"The News, Sporting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing I like about the <cite>Grauniad<\/cite>: when they run the story headlined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2013\/may\/15\/bbc-radio-4-cox-sackers\">BBC Radio 4 rapped over &#8216;cox sackers&#8217; on-air comment<\/a>, they feel very comfortable actually detailing the complaint:\n<blockquote><p>The trust&#8217;s editorial complaints unit agreed, saying the phrase was &#8220;not articulated clearly enough and could easily have been misheard for the offensive word &#8216;cocksuckers&#8217; by the majority of the audience&#8221;.<p>It said it was &#8220;highly likely to have been misheard by a significant part of the audience as &#8216;cocksuckers&#8217;&#8221;, many of whom might have been children because it was broadcast at 4.15pm when parents were doing the school run.<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is difficult to imagine the <i>New York Times<\/i> being able to report on the story at all.\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which Your Humble Blogger is also concerned about the sock-tuckers, coke-stackers and of course those pleasant sons who pluck the pheasants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16701,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions\/16701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}