{"id":587,"date":"2011-03-08T12:10:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=587"},"modified":"2011-03-08T12:10:58","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T11:10:58","slug":"contains-mild-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Contains mild language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spotted on a poster at Buxton Community School last night, advertising a student production called <em>Threads<\/em>: &#8216;contains mild language&#8217;. As the OED definition of <em>mild<\/em> includes &#8216;not giving offence to others&#8217;, I assume this isn&#8217;t the 1984 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Threads\">television drama about nuclear war<\/a> written by Barry Hines. I wonder if this warning is to prepare an audience hoping for something satisfyingly controversial that they might be shocked by the bandying of terms such as <em>nesh<\/em>, <em>soft<\/em> and even <em>nice<\/em>.<br \/>\nAlas, such thrills were not for me: instead, I enjoyed a two hour presentation on the future for the local authority, the challenge of academies, free schools and the like. Some folk didn&#8217;t seem very mild about that, though (to quote <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/literaryconnect\">Friday&#8217;s Phrase<\/a>) no sabres were rattled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is mild language so rare as to be shocking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[85,104],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-words","tag-academies","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}