{"id":587,"date":"2018-05-24T21:34:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T21:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=587"},"modified":"2018-07-30T21:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T21:35:42","slug":"wet-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/05\/24\/wet-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"WET DREAMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">Another SCAN piece that caught our eye (SCAN\u2019s news reportage has been good this year, hasn\u2019t it?) was the report that significant parts of the unfaltering spine refurbishment have been ditched to speed up the process. Notably, the \u2018Wetlands Bridge\u2019 project opposite the Charles Carter building has been dropped so that the contractors can focus on finishing the vital stuff (y\u2019know, things that allow you to take a linear route from one place to another on a consistent basis) in time for Michaelmas term. We did say this would be the best strategy (subtext 158, 154, passim ad nauseam) about a thousand times, but what do we know?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace\">SCAN\u2019s report can be found here: <a href=\"http:\/\/scan.lusu.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/spine-shortened-wetlands-area-ditched\/\">http:\/\/scan.lusu.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/05\/14\/spine-shortened-wetlands-area-ditched\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another SCAN piece that caught our eye (SCAN\u2019s news reportage has been good this year, hasn\u2019t it?) was the report that significant parts of the unfaltering spine refurbishment have been ditched to speed up the process. Notably, the \u2018Wetlands Bridge\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/05\/24\/wet-dreams\/\">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":[11,332,224],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-design-the-spine","tag-issue-178","tag-scan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-9t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":401,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/03\/01\/scan-dal\/","url_meta":{"origin":587,"position":0},"title":"SCAN-DAL","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 1 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"In subtext 173, we suggested that a SCAN comment piece on the Gary Neville University, published last October, was the first time the publication had covered this story. 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Private Eye and SCAN reported recently on the college accommodation manager who ordered a student to remove a display of sticky notes in a kitchen window which spelled out 'Stand\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":508,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/04\/26\/general-fiasco\/","url_meta":{"origin":587,"position":4},"title":"GENERAL FIASCO","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"April 26 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"subtext was unable to report on the LUSU General Meeting last month, so here's SCAN's report:\u00a0http:\/\/scan.lusu.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/03\/15\/union-on-the-defensive-in-ill-tempered-agm\/ What was of interest to subtext was the excuses reeled off by the officer team for the poor attendance. 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