{"id":1188,"date":"2009-03-23T19:58:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/2009\/03\/23\/1188\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T19:58:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:58:57","slug":"better-than-the-real-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/better-than-the-real-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Better than the real ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nChiseling like a pro_0568c<\/a>
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A couple of years ago, Phyllis asked me to buy “One Chisel Each” in the staff bookshop.<\/p>\n

Or so I though – it turned out I had misheard what she said, and what she wanted was “On Chesil Beach<\/a>\"\"“.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I’ve ever since thought “One Chisel Each” was a better title, and I often wondered what that book would have been about – two stonemasons falling in love, perhaps?<\/p>\n

Then, a few months ago, I was looking through the piles of novels in the staff bookshop when a book cover caught my imagination: “The Queen of Subtitles”.<\/p>\n

I was about to take it down from the shelf when I realised it was really called “The Queen of Subtleties<\/a>\"\"“, and I decided not to buy it. Others might disagree, but I definitely would rather read about the subtitle queen…<\/p>\n

Has anybody else got any other book titles they misunderstood and preferred to the real one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chiseling like a pro_0568c Originally uploaded by hoyasmeg A couple of years ago, Phyllis asked me to buy “One Chisel Each” in the staff bookshop. Or so I though – it turned out I had misheard what she said, and what she wanted was “On Chesil Beach“. To be honest, I’ve ever since thought “One Chisel Each” was a better title, and I often wondered what that book would have been about – two stonemasons falling in love, perhaps? Then, a few months ago, I was looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}