{"id":509,"date":"2007-03-11T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/03\/11\/leditor-to-the-editor\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T06:17:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T11:17:09","slug":"leditor-to-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/03\/11\/leditor-to-the-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Leditor to the editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor:<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank your paper<br \/>\nand you in particular<br \/>\nfor publishing in your<br \/>\nletters to the editor section<br \/>\nevery niggling thought<br \/>\nthat occurs to anyone with<br \/>\nwriting materials and postage,<br \/>\nwithout concern for<br \/>\nreason, logic or grammar.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that<br \/>\npeople on whom you bestow<br \/>\nfifteen minutes of fame<br \/>\nby publishing their<br \/>\npuerility on your pages<br \/>\nwill of necessity<br \/>\nsubscribe to them<br \/>\nwith hard-earned cash,<br \/>\nwhich you cannot afford to spurn.<\/p>\n<p>But could you pu-leeze<br \/>\nset up another place<br \/>\nin the paper for<br \/>\nthe rational souls<br \/>\nwho write in with<br \/>\nsomething worth<br \/>\nthinking about?<\/p>\n<p>That way, we can<br \/>\nseparate the zealot<br \/>\nfrom the rational<br \/>\nand the insane from the<br \/>\nmisled and misinformed \u2014<br \/>\nwithout whoopsing coffee<br \/>\nall over our scrambled eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Yours in never ending hope,<\/p>\n<p>Faithful Reader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor: I want to thank your paper and you in particular for publishing in your letters to the editor section every niggling thought that occurs to anyone with writing materials and postage, without concern for reason, logic or grammar. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2007\/03\/11\/leditor-to-the-editor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mild-mannered-opinion","category-on-the-process-of-writing","category-poetry","category-screeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}