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The copies currently available are still talking about &#8216;general election fever&#8217;.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers feeling starved of information due to subtext&#8217;s relative infrequency these days (the more contributions and contributors we get, the more issues we&#8217;ll put out &#8211; don&#8217;t be shy!) can sate their hunger by visiting Spineless (https:\/\/spineless.uk\/), an online publication &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2020\/02\/19\/fearlessly-spineless\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[557,561],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-issue-192","tag-spineless"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-jb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1515,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2021\/11\/11\/valete-team-spineless\/","url_meta":{"origin":1189,"position":0},"title":"Valete, Team Spineless","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"November 11 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Spineless, Lancaster's alternative source of student news and comment, is no more. 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