{"id":13741,"date":"2012-02-26T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=13741"},"modified":"2012-02-26T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T14:20:07","slug":"visitbritains-spelling-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/26\/visitbritains-spelling-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"VisitBritain&#8217;s spelling problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of an embarrassment for Britain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/9105978\/National-tourism-agency-misses-typo-in-multi-million-pound-global-advertising-campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\">national tourism agency<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Tourists attempting to follow VisitBritain\u2019s tip to travel to the Welsh region of the \u201cBreacon Beacons\u201d may find themselves rather lost when entering the destination into their satnav.<\/p>\n<p>The misspelling of the Brecon Beacons was spotted by an eagle-eyed tourist on a New York subway advertisement, which was accompanied with a picturesque photograph capturing the countryside of Llandovery, a market town in Carmarthenshire.<\/p>\n<p>The promotional image, which also currently appears in the advertising spaces in front of passenger seats in New York taxis, was promptly posted on Facebook. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of an embarrassment for Britain&#8217;s national tourism agency: Tourists attempting to follow VisitBritain\u2019s tip to travel to the Welsh region of the \u201cBreacon Beacons\u201d may find themselves rather lost when entering the destination into their satnav. The misspelling of the Brecon Beacons was spotted by an eagle-eyed tourist on a New York subway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[391,156,384,274],"class_list":["post-13741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","tag-facebook","tag-fail","tag-newyork","tag-tourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3zD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13742,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13741\/revisions\/13742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}