{"id":407,"date":"2018-03-01T22:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T22:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=407"},"modified":"2018-03-01T22:31:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T22:31:51","slug":"tales-from-the-bunker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/03\/01\/tales-from-the-bunker\/","title":{"rendered":"TALES FROM THE BUNKER"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bomb shelter simulator or marathon man experience continues apace. subtext ponders that it might be the case that senior management have sensed a ‘good day to bury (or should that be dig up, retile, dig up again, and make lots of noise with a jackhammer) bad news’ moment. The opportunities presented by the strike (i.e. empty lecture theatres and seminar rooms) have provided senior management a fortuitous moment to instruct construction workers to bang on with doing what they have been doing with added gusto. Rumours have reached the subtext warehouse that students have witnessed a noticeable increase in the banging and crashing in a variety of places on campus. Whether management have seized the moment, or it is just a coincidence, it is still the case that a building site is not the place to undertake any form of educational encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The bomb shelter simulator or marathon man experience continues apace. subtext ponders that it might be the case that senior management have sensed a ‘good day to bury (or should that be dig up, retile, dig up again, and make … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,13,233],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-design-the-spine","tag-facilities","tag-issue-174"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-6z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1102,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/12\/13\/letters-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":407,"position":0},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"December 13 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, I read with interest the letter in subtext 190 from 'Name Supplied' on the vexed issue of Vacancy Management. 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