{"id":821,"date":"2008-07-08T01:41:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T05:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=821"},"modified":"2008-07-08T01:41:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T05:41:46","slug":"821","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/821\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hastings Obscurer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wonderful socialist novel, <em>The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist<\/em>, was written by Robert Tressell, who lived part of his life in Hastings and St. Leonards on Sea. The Hastings Museum has a good page on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmag.org.uk\/robertTressell\/\">Tressell<\/a>. The novel was published posthumously in 1914. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 years later the local paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hastingsobserver.co.uk\/\"><em>The Hastings Observer<\/em><\/a>, continues to be an embarrassment to the community and rightly deserves to be continued to be referred to as <em>The Obscurer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For example, enjoy this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hastingsobserver.co.uk\/newshastings\/Shopper-dies-at-Morrisons.4264100.jp\">tragic report<\/a> of a shopper dieing in the local supermarket, Morrisons, last night. <\/p>\n<p>More concern is expressed about the alarm of shoppers having to witness a corpse wheeled past their full shopping trolleys (Americans: read carts) at the checkout than there is about such a tragedy occurring in the first place. Talk about creating a media sensation when there&#8217;s neither any sensation nor any media!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Obscurer<\/em>, an embarrassment to the town and surrounding area: It&#8217;s badly written. There&#8217;s no attempt at any copy editing. It&#8217;s politically biased. Fact checking appears to be nonexistent. There is no design. The Grumpy Vegan refuses to pay 40p each week for such rubbish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wonderful socialist novel, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, was written by Robert Tressell, who lived part of his life in Hastings and St. Leonards on Sea. The Hastings Museum has a good page on Tressell. The novel was published posthumously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/821\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moaning","category-the-grumpy-vegan-life","tag-stupid-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}