{"id":10669,"date":"2022-05-17T07:56:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T07:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/?p=10669"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:48:56","slug":"a-comedy-of-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/a-comedy-of-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"A comedy of errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>I have to confess to having zero interest in the libel trial brought by Rebekah Vardy against fellow WAG Coleen Rooney \u2013 two women seemingly obsessed with destroying one another.<br \/>\nBut don\u2019t the events that are currently unfolding in the High Courts of Justice in London expose the shallowness of our world, one that's obsessed with the cult of 'celebrity'?<\/p>\n<p>Two women, who are at war with one another about the leaking of false information, seem to be more important news than the state of our economy, the war in Ukraine, millions of starving people in Afghanistan \u2013 or oodles of other things that are so much more important than this tawdry state of affairs.<br \/>\n IN TATTERS: Rebekah Vardy, who brought the libel case, has seen her reputation suffer.<br \/>\nYet the public at large is lapping it up. Rarely is it off the front pages of our national press, or not being commented on by our national and regional broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>Not so many years ago, this sort of case would never have created such head...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to confess to having zero interest in the libel trial brought by Rebekah Vardy against fellow WAG Coleen Rooney \u2013 two women seemingly obsessed with destroying one another. But don\u2019t the events that are currently unfolding in the High Courts of Justice in London expose the shallowness of our world, one that&#8217;s obsessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":10671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1546,1789],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-portfolio","category-homepage","category-comment-columnists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/05\/WAG-000.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10669"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10685,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10669\/revisions\/10685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}