{"id":792,"date":"2018-11-08T19:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=792"},"modified":"2018-11-22T20:06:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T20:06:54","slug":"letters-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/11\/08\/letters-18\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Re: car parking and passes<\/span><\/p>\n

Ah for the heady days of yesteryear (well about 18 years ago) when car park passes were collected in person from the security office. And parking, at least on a Friday (or POETS day – Push Off Early Tomorrow’s Saturday) meant my husband and young son could parallel park on the back carpark across as many spaces as they wanted (yes, it was that empty) with our caravan in tow. They’d get the kettle on and have a brew while waiting for me to finish work before a weekend escape to the Lake District. Eeh, them were t’ days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Irene Dudley-Swarbrick<\/span>
\nTeaching Fellow, Project Management Unit, 1999-2001<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

While I never met any Freemasons during my time at Lancaster (or since for that matter), I do recall seeing posters on the spine advertising for new members. I think this was at the start of my third year – October 2012. A secret society advertising struck me as rather defeating the point!<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Jack Fleming<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear subtext, Re: car parking and passes Ah for the heady days of yesteryear (well about 18 years ago) when car park passes were collected in person from the security office. And parking, at least on a Friday (or POETS … 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":[398,408,362,81],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","tag-freemasons","tag-issue-182","tag-letters","tag-parking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99sHo-cM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":761,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/10\/11\/letters-17\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":0},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"October 11 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear subtext, I don't normally email but as a fairly new starter to Lancaster I was gobsmacked yesterday when I received my new parking permit through the post. Just seems a waste of money to me. A second class stamp costs 58p. Lancaster has 2,500 staff. So if 80% apply\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "letters"","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":139,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/10\/26\/valued-members-of-staff\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":1},"title":"VALUED MEMBERS OF STAFF","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"October 26 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In the last edition of subtext we reported on the problems of staff on termly contracts and their inability to get a staff bus pass. subtext has learnt of similar problems concerning hourly paid teaching staff who drive to work, and although we have historically avoided publishing stories about parking,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news"","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":622,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/06\/07\/letters-14\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":2},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"June 7 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"There's been a distinct lack of letters. Let's hope for a bumper postbag next time.","rel":"","context":"In "letters"","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":262,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2017\/12\/07\/school-of-missing-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":3},"title":"SCHOOL OF MISSING LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"December 7 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Coming off the night shift at the subtext warehouse our drones were intrigued by the new sign at the entrance to Bowland North. Not the blaring adverts for Subway and Blackwell's, but the cool, chunky, brushed steel lettering proclaiming something called 'law school'. The fact that it was all in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "news"","block_context":{"text":"news","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":955,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2019\/04\/02\/letters-22\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":4},"title":"LETTERS","author":"Johnny Unger","date":"April 2 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing to see here.","rel":"","context":"In "letters"","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":318,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/02\/01\/letters-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":792,"position":5},"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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I recall the favourite at the time amongst chattering classes was University of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "letters"","block_context":{"text":"letters","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/category\/letters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}