{"id":12649,"date":"2012-11-05T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2012-11-06T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T07:06:36","slug":"super-short-story-107-politeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2012\/11\/super-short-story-107-politeness\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Short Story (107): Politeness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-12650\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1.jpg?resize=142%2C128\" alt=\"\" width=\"142\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1.jpg?w=236&amp;ssl=1 236w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1.jpg?resize=96%2C87&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 142px) 100vw, 142px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Super Short Story (107): Politeness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He thought the newspaper editor&#8217;s thanking him<br \/>\nfor his lengthy email feedback meant he had an open mind,<br \/>\nthat his views shared were appreciated and didn&#8217;t go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Little did he realise it was just a perfunctory standard reply &#8211;<br \/>\nminimally and purposely worded<br \/>\nto placate many vocal readers politely.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t mean that his views were agreed with,<br \/>\nor that they would be publicised in any way at all<br \/>\nto correct the wrong ones published by his paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Short Story (107): Politeness He thought the newspaper editor&#8217;s thanking him for his lengthy email feedback meant he had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-12649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-appreciation","wpcat-606-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}