{"id":99,"date":"2010-01-07T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T07:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=99"},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:28:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T21:28:37","slug":"grit-your-teeth-weather-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Grit your teeth: weather warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/images\/Express_1.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Daily Express front page, 6 Jan 2010\"  title=\"Daily Express front page, 6 Jan 2010\" \/> Bad weather, like other adversity, can bring out the best and the worst in people. After an hour-long neighbourly street-clearing session yesterday, I was able to make it into town to replenish essential supplies (milk, butter, spiral notebooks). I noticed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/ourpaper\/view\/2010-01-06\">Daily Express front page<\/a> used the cold weather as an excuse to take a shot at global warming. As I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to buy the paper, all I have the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/posts\/view\/150124\/Snow-chaos-Temperatures-to-plunge\">online version<\/a>, which seems to have suppressed the controversial subheading. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/greenslade\/2010\/jan\/06\/national-newspapers-weather\">Roy Greenslade<\/a> quotes the opening sentence: &#8216;As one of the worst winters in 100 years grips the country, climate experts are still trying to claim the world is getting warmer.&#8217;  Has global warming taken over from Princess Diana as their favourite subject for conspiracy theories? Deborah Orr asked in Wednesday&#8217;s <em>Guardian<\/em>: &#8216;Are some people really this stupid?&#8217; I can&#8217;t find this bit of her column online; perhaps they don&#8217;t like to offend fellow-journalists too much?<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, clich&eacute;s abound. I enjoyed two <em>Guardian<\/em> headlines: &#8216;Passengers grit their teeth while children enjoy a day off school&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2010\/jan\/07\/snow-weather-transport-schools\">7 January<\/a>) and &#8216;The man from the council helping put grit into Britain&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2010\/jan\/06\/road-grit-salt-depot-roads\">6 January<\/a>). Although grit is in short supply, it would seem from the first headline toothpaste is even scarcer, if people are having to grit their teeth rather than their pavements&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no  clich&eacute;s like snow clich&eacute;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}