{"id":50,"date":"2014-08-03T15:30:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T15:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirtyletters.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2014-10-15T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T06:57:11","slug":"letter-to-boris-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Boris Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Duodecimus Iunius<\/p>\n

2013<\/p>\n

Ave Boris,<\/p>\n

Volo conqueror re quadras pavimenti. \u00a0Est hos cum triginta sex bullae ad quodquae iuncturae atque bivii quas re vera adipiscant meum caper.<\/p>\n

Cur o cur habemus tot ? \u00a0Nocent meis pedis et nolo illas apud Londinium. \u00a0Malo planas quadras – sunt melior pro meis teneris pedis et expecto caecus populus noli necessitant.<\/p>\n

Ero lactus si amoevebis illas.<\/p>\n

Tibi gratias ago,<\/p>\n

Omnis optime,<\/p>\n

Jacobus Aestes \u00a0( Jamie Summers )<\/p>\n

P.S. \u00a0Obvenivi homo caecus porro Garratt Lane hic post meridiem et inquit sunt solum utilis in pergrinas areas. \u00a0Dicavit ibi est nunc ‘satelles navigatio’ quod reddat eas supervaceneos.<\/p>\n

Quiesco meum quaestionum.<\/p>\n

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The translation below was not sent to Boris. He just received the Latin version.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Reply from Lucy Brant, 25 June 1014:<\/p>\n

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21st July 2013<\/p>\n

Your ref : MGLA 130613-9005<\/p>\n

Dear Lucy,<\/p>\n

Thank you for your letter dated 25th June 2013 concerning my complaint about \u2018tactile paving\u2019. \u00a0A minor pedantic gripe would be that you didn\u2019t post it until 1st July and then it failed to arrive until 4th July \u00a0\u2013 however, hypocrisy rules because here I am waiting until 21st July to pen a response !<\/p>\n

Of course my letter to Boris was partly \u2018tongue-in-cheek\u2019 to put a smile on his face, but there again I did mean what I said. \u00a0Your reply was measured (albeit sadly not in Latin) and well crafted. \u00a0I fear we are stuck with these impedimenta \u2013 to replace them them all would be a cost and effort too far.<\/p>\n

Wishing you every success in your career,<\/p>\n

I remain,<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n

Jamie Summers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Duodecimus Iunius 2013 Ave Boris, Volo conqueror re quadras pavimenti. \u00a0Est hos cum triginta sex bullae ad quodquae iuncturae atque bivii quas re vera adipiscant meum caper. Cur o cur habemus tot ? \u00a0Nocent meis pedis et nolo illas apud Londinium. \u00a0Malo planas quadras – sunt melior pro meis teneris pedis et expecto caecus … Continue reading Letter to Boris Johnson<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shirtyletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}