{"id":54,"date":"2008-10-18T17:22:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T16:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-04-13T08:39:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T07:39:46","slug":"hard-earned-clichs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Hard-earned clich&eacute;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/metaphors.englishandict.co.uk\/images\/signal.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" title=\"It's a sign - of some kind...\" alt=\"It's a sign - of some kind...\" \/>A writer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a> worried about the linguistic backwash from the roller-coaster ride in the financial markets. Subsequent correspondence proved, as might be expected, that Guardian readers have readily rallied to the cause:<\/p>\n<p>I notice that there a world shortage of clich&eacute;s that could see the media teetering on the edge of a black hole tsunami. Is it time for a government injection of new metaphors to stop the drought?<br \/>\n<em>Adrian Greeman<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2008\/oct\/14\/3\" target=\"_blank\">14 October 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adrian Greeman is so right. We need to go back to basics; clich&eacute;s need to be sexed up 24\/7 to win hearts and minds. This government&#8217;s lack of action beggars belief.<br \/>\n<em>Adele Zaslawska<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2008\/oct\/16\/2\" target=\"_blank\">16 October 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Government hand-outs of taxpayers&#8217; hard-earned clich&eacute;s (Letters, October 14) will only further dilute international metaphor reserves. Provision of &#8220;meltdowns&#8221; from the private sector has already reached an eye-watering number.<br \/>\n<em>Henry Fryer<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\/2008\/oct\/18\/1\" target=\"_blank\">18 October 2008<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a  clich&eacute; crisis<\/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":[62],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-cliche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}