{"id":49916,"date":"2026-04-04T05:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/not-fit-for-purpose-the-secret-history-of-a-deadly-phrase\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:13:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:13:23","slug":"not-fit-for-purpose-the-secret-history-of-a-deadly-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/not-fit-for-purpose-the-secret-history-of-a-deadly-phrase\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Not fit for purpose&#039; &#8211; the secret history of a deadly phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>The four word phrase &#8211; first uttered by Labour Home Secretary John Reid &#8211; has become a by-word for incompetence.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c3dl18ndvydo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four word phrase &#8211; first uttered by Labour Home Secretary John Reid &#8211; has become a by-word for incompetence. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[2506,980,334,1166,14482,14481,269],"class_list":["post-49916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-039not","tag-deadly","tag-fit","tag-history","tag-phrase","tag-purpose039","tag-secret"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49918,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49916\/revisions\/49918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}