{"id":14862,"date":"2017-11-12T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T09:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/12\/paddington-and-the-law-of-unintended-consequences-david-mitchell\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T10:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T09:59:51","slug":"paddington-and-the-law-of-unintended-consequences-david-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=14862","title":{"rendered":"Paddington and the Law of Unintended Consequences | David Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M&amp;S\u2019s Christmas advert has Britain\u2019s favourite bear hugging a criminal while McDonald\u2019s unwittingly casts McNuggets in an unsavoury lightThe new M&amp;S advert may not, I\u2019m sorry to say, be as conducive as its producers hoped to the spirit of Christmas. On the face of it, it\u2019s sweet enough: very much a Christmas advert of the new school. No mention of M&amp;S products, no \u201cMassive boxes of Chrissy Chocs going cheap!\u201d yelled in a persuasive voice. No scenes in the shop: \u201cI\u2019m looking for a present for a disliked uncle and I\u2019m on a tight budget!\u201d \u201cThis way, madam \u2013 these cardigans look much better than they really are!\u201d Not even an idealised depiction of a shopping street with thickly falling fake snow.No, as is the current fashion, they\u2019ve gone with the heartwarming yuletide fable format, as pioneered by Charles Dickens and then at long last given a capitalist raison d\u2019etre a century and a half later by John Lewis. It\u2019s set on Christmas Eve, in a quiet street near sleepy, snow-covered Primrose Hill \u2013 the closest Marks is a Simply Food in Camden \u2013 and it features the lovable Paddington Bear, the second phase of whose sensitive reboot is certain to be the star atop the glittering tree of our cinemas\u2019 seasonal offering. So far so adjective. But adjective is a noun! So far so nounlike. Festive! That\u2019s it. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/nov\/12\/paddington-law-of-unintended-consequences-m-and-s-mcdonalds-commercials\" target=\"_blank\">Paddington and the Law of Unintended Consequences | David Mitchell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M&amp;S\u2019s Christmas advert has Britain\u2019s favourite bear hugging a criminal while McDonald\u2019s unwittingly casts McNuggets in an unsavoury lightThe new M&amp;S advert may not, I\u2019m sorry to say, be as conducive as its producers hoped to the spirit of Christmas. On the face of it, it\u2019s sweet enough: very much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}