{"id":9984,"date":"2019-08-14T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9984"},"modified":"2019-08-14T10:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T08:58:44","slug":"standards-slipping-and-sliding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9984\/","title":{"rendered":"Standards Slipping and Sliding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">written before<\/a> about the inability of modern actors to enunciate their words when speaking quickly, or even slowly, especially in comparison to greats such as Humphrey Bogart. Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_R_Dawson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">someone<\/a> posted this Two Ronnies sketch on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r56wlRsHric\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nothing short of incredible that these two remembered their lines, let alone delivered them clearly without getting tongue-tied while acting at the same time. Now I&#8217;m sure it took many takes and the footage is spliced but still, it&#8217;s hard to imagine a contemporary actor or comedian managing just twenty seconds of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written before about the inability of modern actors to enunciate their words when speaking quickly, or even slowly, especially in comparison to greats such as Humphrey Bogart. Yesterday someone posted this Two Ronnies sketch on Twitter: It&#8217;s nothing short &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9984\/\">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":[],"categories":[94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9986,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions\/9986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}