{"id":3,"date":"2002-08-08T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-08T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"winsome-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/winsome-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Winsome Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere or other today, I read a description of Fosca as &apos;winsome&apos;. The dictinary definition is &quot;charming in a naive or childlike way&quot;, which would be fine, but currently, more often than not the word tends to be used pejoratively.<\/p>\n<p>I recall that Alan Bennett takes particular umbrage when the term is applied to him. One story goes, that, when an interviewer used the word, Mr Bennett replied &quot;Winsome? Lose some&quot;, and promptly got up and left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere or other today, I read a description of Fosca as &apos;winsome&apos;. The dictinary definition is &quot;charming in a naive or childlike way&quot;, which would be fine, but currently, more often than not the word tends to be used pejoratively. I recall that Alan Bennett takes particular umbrage when the term is applied to him. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}