{"id":939,"date":"2011-07-21T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=939"},"modified":"2011-07-22T19:23:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T18:23:56","slug":"unspeakable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Unspeakable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday&#8217;s Thought from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/resources\/wordoftheday.html\">Word of the Day<\/a> comes as promised from the Vatican itself (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/jul\/19\/global-elite-scandal\" title=\"The global elite is no stranger to scandal\" target=\"_blank\">via an intermediary<\/a>): how can something be &#8216;unspeakable&#8217; if we can speak of it?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we managed to secure the good offices of the Holy See &#8211; even though the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition and James Murdoch all clamoured for today&#8217;s word to be &#8216;hindsight&#8217;. So last year, chaps: &#8216;with hindsight&#8217; was Friday&#8217;s Phrase in February 2010. I expect some of them wish they could wind the clock back to then &#8211; which is all the more reason for them to subscribe to Word of the Day. (I don&#8217;t see any of them on the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/literaryconnect\" title=\"Literary Connections Twitter feed\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> followers list&#8230;.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can something be \u2018unspeakable\u2019?<\/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":[127,130,129,28],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-journalism","tag-murdoch","tag-thursdays-thought","tag-word-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}