{"id":9491,"date":"2018-01-25T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2018-01-25T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T07:00:40","slug":"lovely-day-for-a-stout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=9491","title":{"rendered":"Lovely day for a stout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago a colleague, checking a text I had written, spotted a spelling mistake in a passage in which I had referred to an advertising slogan: <em>Guiness is good for you<\/em>. The colleague pointed out the <em>Guinness <\/em>is spelt with double &lt;n&gt;. On the following day, I bought him a couple of bottles of Guinness. This is one of the few memorable instances where correction had both immediate and lasting effect: I have never misspelt Guinness since, and I think I never will. Then, the other day, rereading Heinrich B\u00f6ll\u2019s <em>Irisches Tagebuch<\/em>, I came upon a passage (p. 102) where another Guinness slogan is referred to: <em>A lovely day for a Guiness<\/em>. It contained exactly the same spelling mistake. Nobody had noticed. B\u00f6ll and his editors, however, had a much better excuse for making this mistake: at the time of writing, Guinness was much less well known in this country than it is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago a colleague, checking a text I had written, spotted a spelling mistake in a passage in which I had referred to an advertising slogan: Guiness is good for you. The colleague pointed out the Guinness is spelt &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=9491\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,499,28],"tags":[752,154,2460,1948,1731,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9497,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions\/9497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}