{"id":510,"date":"2018-04-26T20:03:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=510"},"modified":"2018-06-25T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:04:59","slug":"body-positivity-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/04\/26\/body-positivity-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"BODY POSITIVITY CORNER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">subtext regrets to report that many staff returned from their Easter break and logged on to read their email, only to be confronted by a truly horrific image.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Their face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Emails on campus were previously accompanied by a brightly coloured circle containing the sender&#8217;s initials, but no more. Our photos have been imported from the HR portal to the Office 365 system, meaning that the process of checking through one&#8217;s emails is now akin to scrolling through a Facebook timeline. In the average day, a staff member might expect to be confronted by their self-portrait several hundred times &#8211; a terrifying prospect.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Fortunately for the less egocentric amongst us, it&#8217;s possible to change our picture by going to our profile, clicking on the image and replacing it with something more friendly. A majestic landscape, perhaps, or a bunch of flowers. Maybe a nice EU flag. Anything to avoid that gurning visage.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>subtext regrets to report that many staff returned from their Easter break and logged on to read their email, only to be confronted by a truly horrific image. Their face. Emails on campus were previously accompanied by a brightly coloured &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/04\/26\/body-positivity-corner\/\">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_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":[293,292],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-email","tag-issue-176"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-8e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1086,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/11\/01\/goodbye-emeriti\/","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":0},"title":"GOODBYE EMERITI!","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"November 1 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Sad news reaches subtext from a retired member of staff. 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