{"id":10033,"date":"2012-04-17T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=10033"},"modified":"2012-04-17T18:40:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:40:43","slug":"2533-funny-letter-to-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=10033","title":{"rendered":"[2533] Funny letter to <em>The Economist<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following letter was published by April 14 edition of <em>The Economist<\/em> in its Letters section.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Unbelievable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SIR &#8211; A recent issue of <em>The Economist<\/em> (March 24th) showed an Orwellian enthusiasm for the prefix &#8220;un&#8221;. I counted &#8220;un-Tory&#8221;, &#8220;un-Downton&#8221;, &#8220;un-Italian&#8221; and &#8220;un-Einsteinian&#8221;. How very unimaginative, and how very unEconomist.<\/p>\n<p>ADAM DALTON<br \/>\n<em>London<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following letter was published by April 14 edition of The Economist in its Letters section. Unbelievable SIR &#8211; A recent issue of The Economist (March 24th) showed an Orwellian enthusiasm for the prefix &#8220;un&#8221;. I counted &#8220;un-Tory&#8221;, &#8220;un-Downton&#8221;, &#8220;un-Italian&#8221; and &#8220;un-Einsteinian&#8221;. How very unimaginative, and how very unEconomist. ADAM DALTON London Funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-10033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-printed-materials","category-humor","tag-the-economist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10036,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10033\/revisions\/10036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}