{"id":3812,"date":"2008-08-07T01:39:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T05:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2008-08-07T01:39:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T05:39:53","slug":"all_the_best_giles_coren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/all_the_best_giles_coren\/","title":{"rendered":"all the best, giles coren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant critic Giles Coren&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/jul\/25\/pressandpublishing.thetimes\">nasty emails, foul-mouthed and excoriating<\/a>, are so over the top that they&#8217;re hilarious, especially if you&#8217;ve ever worked as a writer and have ever been edited by someone who didn&#8217;t know what they were doing. Coren basically takes the nastygram you&#8217;d write to be therapeutic but immediately delete, ups the asshole factor by a factor of ten, and then <strong>actually presses send<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The joke is gone. I only wrote that sodding paragraph to make that joke. And you&#8217;ve fucking stripped it out like a pissed Irish plasterer restoring a renaissance fresco and thinking jesus looks shit with a bear so plastering over it. You might as well have removed the whole paragraph. I mean, fucking christ, don&#8217;t you read the copy?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant critic Giles Coren&#8217;s nasty emails, foul-mouthed and excoriating, are so over the top that they&#8217;re hilarious, especially if you&#8217;ve ever worked as a writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}