{"id":6331,"date":"2013-03-02T08:02:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T08:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=6331"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T10:31:25","slug":"comment-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=6331","title":{"rendered":"The Fourth Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">THE LEEDS LEEK<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/smalleek.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5524\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/smalleek.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMENT IS FREE<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>But facts are sacret<\/strong><br \/>\nDenying but not forever rumours of a possible merger with The Leeds Leek, The Guardian has issued a statement: \u201cIf the Leek is <a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/leedsleek.html#truthout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spiritually<\/a> in Leeds, and The Guardian in London, perhaps we could meet somewhere in the muddle, like Huddersfield. Eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, Times, serif; font-size: medium;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/pics\/fountains.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"253\" \/><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, Times, serif; font-size: medium;\">Polish plumbers have not yet made inroads into this West Yorkshire market town<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There were reactions to the rumour, some more mixed than others. Guardian soulmates were as an aggregate noncommittal, <span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, Times, serif; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/notesandqueries\/query\/0,5753,-5498,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">whilst<\/a><\/span> the readers\u2019 editor was reporting strong currents of opinion that the news department would suffer but in a good way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/pics\/campus.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, Times, serif; font-size: medium;\">Students were divided on the issue of whilst<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, Times, serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is thought that a representative of the loss leading national newspaper division within the Guardian Media Group observed the publisher of The Leeds Leek in a first class carriage on the train one day and assumed Leek coffers to be flush with cash and therefore ideal partners. It later transpired the Leek was just passing through.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/pics\/hudderscow.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"292\" \/><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"font-family: Times\\ New\\ Roman, Times, serif; font-size: medium;\">Nightlife in Huddersfield is scheduled during daylight hours for health and safety reasons<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LEEDS LEEK COMMENT IS FREE But facts are sacret Denying but not forever rumours of a possible merger with The Leeds Leek, The Guardian has issued a statement: \u201cIf the Leek is spiritually in Leeds, and The Guardian in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=6331\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11524,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions\/11524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}