{"id":887,"date":"2019-02-01T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=887"},"modified":"2019-02-01T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:45:19","slug":"letters-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/02\/01\/letters-21\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear subtext,<\/span><\/p>\n

I like very much the look of your newsletter, and enjoy the terrible puns which hit the spot magnificently.<\/span><\/p>\n

But from time to time, you rather belie your excellent ‘subtext’ title, and write some piffle.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is really not enough to label people ‘fascists’ or activities ‘hate speech’, and assume that everyone will immediately condemn them. You do have to advance an argument, otherwise it looks as though you think us all no more than Snowball’s lackeys. Which I am sure you cannot intend.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/span><\/p>\n

Richard Martin<\/span><\/p>\n

***<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear subtext,<\/span><\/p>\n

Any chance you could switch fonts from Courier 10 to Calibri 11 or similar?\u00a0 It may be that Courier brings back warm memories of an Imperial typewriter from when the university was founded but, for those of us reading it on laptops, it can be barely legible. (I usually copy the lot into a Word document, change the font and read it there.)\u00a0 I’ll not delve into the Equalities Act s20(6) but I’m sure it applies somehow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apart from that, I enjoy subtext!<\/span><\/p>\n

Kind regards,<\/span><\/p>\n

Roger Kemp<\/span>
\nEngineering<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear subtext, I like very much the look of your newsletter, and enjoy the terrible puns which hit the spot magnificently. But from time to time, you rather belie your excellent ‘subtext’ title, and write some piffle. It is really … 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":[10],"tags":[453,452,362,454],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-fonts","tag-issue-185","tag-letters","tag-piffle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-ej","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":318,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/02\/01\/letters-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":887,"position":0},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"February 1 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, On the 'There's only one University in Lancashire' thread. 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Who has currently held\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "letters"","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":63,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/10\/12\/letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":887,"position":4},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"October 12 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, Can anyone who saw this kind of behaviour from doors [see article on weird door behaviour in subtext 165] let me know which ones? Most of the access controlled doors are supposed to fail open, especially those on fire routes. I'd like to investigate ones not doing the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "letters"","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":919,"url":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/03\/01\/letter\/","url_meta":{"origin":887,"position":5},"title":"LETTER","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"March 1 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, Roger Kemp is right. Please use a font that can be read. Michael Heale","rel":"","context":"In "letters"","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":888,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}