{"id":23393,"date":"2016-05-28T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T04:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=23393"},"modified":"2016-05-28T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T04:34:24","slug":"the-straits-times-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=23393","title":{"rendered":"The Straits Times Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you think the Straits Times (ST) newspaper is worth $1.10\u00a0 and\u00a0 $1.20 for Saturday\u2019s copy? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For me, I find the quality of ST as a respected newspaper for current affairs local and global has declined drastically. Nowadays, I find very few newsworthy reports and articles to read. Domestic news is important but there is not enough of it. Instead there are pages and pages of sports news.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The ST pads up the daily newspaper \u00a0by having sections\u00a0 and supplements like property, motoring, recruit , scholarships &#8230;etc \u00a0catering to sectors of society but we seniors must also pay for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Last Wednesday (May 25) there was a supplement entitled \u201cThe doctor is in\u201d. I read the articles on the various afflictions and their cure including beauty treatment before realizing the write-ups were supporting the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">advertisements<\/span> of products and services appearing on the same pages. I felt cheated by ST.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If not for the obituary pages, I would have given up buying the ST last year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23394\" style=\"width: 133px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23394\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/st-supplement-002-133x100.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"133\" height=\"100\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Read the write ups with a big pinch of salt!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think the Straits Times (ST) newspaper is worth $1.10\u00a0 and\u00a0 $1.20 for Saturday\u2019s copy? For me, I find the quality of ST as a respected newspaper for current affairs local and global has declined drastically. Nowadays, I find very few newsworthy reports and articles to read. Domestic news is important but there is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=23393\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Straits Times Newspaper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[375],"class_list":["post-23393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23397,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393\/revisions\/23397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}