{"id":512,"date":"2019-09-26T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=512"},"modified":"2019-09-26T20:33:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:33:19","slug":"bbc-accurate-but-for-the-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/09\/26\/bbc-accurate-but-for-the-but\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC accurate, but for the &#8216;but&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Jacques Chirac, the former French president who championed the EU, but whose later years were blighted by corruption scandals, has died aged 86.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sentence from today&#8217;s BBC red-button news seems an accurate summary &#8211; except that I am puzzled why the word &#8216;but&#8217; connects the descriptions of the two main interests of Monsieur Chirac.  Surely &#8216;and&#8217; would have been the more appropriate conjunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Chirac, the former French president who championed the EU, but whose later years were blighted by corruption scandals, has died aged 86. This sentence from today&#8217;s BBC red-button news seems an accurate summary &#8211; except that I am puzzled why the word &#8216;but&#8217; connects the descriptions of the two main interests of Monsieur Chirac. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,16,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}