{"id":415,"date":"2010-05-14T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=415"},"modified":"2010-05-18T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T09:42:29","slug":"the-winners-curse-or-why-being-a-loser-may-not-be-so-bad-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"The winner&#8217;s curse: or why being a loser may not be so bad after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday&#8217;s Phrase from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/resources\/wordoftheday.html\">Word of the Day<\/a> is topical, as always. I had thought to offer you <em>hung parliament<\/em>, but that is so last week &#8211; and anyway, it&#8217;s already been covered on the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/topicalwords\/tw-hun2.htm\">World Wide Words<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<p>So instead I bring you <em>the winner&#8217;s curse<\/em>, inspired by Aditya Chakrabortty&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2010\/may\/11\/general-election-2010-winners-curse\">Guardian article<\/a> in which his application of the term to the current political situation is of less literary interest to us than this comment: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you want to see the winner&#8217;s curse close-up, saunter down to the discount section of your local bookshop. You&#8217;ll probably see a pile of celebrity memoirs, for which the publishers paid hundreds of thousands, only to see them flop.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So &#8211; being a loser may not be so bad after all! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday&#8217;s Phrase from Word of the Day is topical, as always. I had thought to offer you hung parliament, but that is so last week &#8211; and anyway, it&#8217;s already been covered on the excellent World Wide Words site. So instead I bring you the winner&#8217;s curse, inspired by Aditya Chakrabortty&#8217;s Guardian article in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The winner&#8217;s curse: or why being a loser may not be so bad after all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[67,28],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-words","tag-election","tag-word-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}