{"id":587,"date":"2006-11-19T17:27:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T16:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/victorian-sarcasm\/"},"modified":"2006-11-19T17:27:51","modified_gmt":"2006-11-19T16:27:51","slug":"victorian-sarcasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/victorian-sarcasm\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Sarcasm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some cheering Victorian sarcasm from WS Gilbert, via John Julius Norwich&#8217;s &#8216;Christmas Cracker&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This is the opening of his letter of complaint to the station-master at Baker Street, on the Metropolitan line:<\/p>\n<p><em>Sir,<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning, although recurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some cheering Victorian sarcasm from WS Gilbert, via John Julius Norwich&#8217;s &#8216;Christmas Cracker&#8217;. This is the opening of his letter of complaint to the station-master at Baker Street, on the Metropolitan line: Sir, Saturday morning, although recurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","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\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}