{"id":25,"date":"2006-06-02T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2006-06-02T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T17:56:00","slug":"writing-a-letter-to-a-newspaper-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/writing-a-letter-to-a-newspaper-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a Letter to a Newspaper Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Sparling, a freelance journalist and Staffordshire Bull Terrier owner, has written a guide on how to write an effective letter to a newspaper editor.  He starts his article with the mantra &#8220;The media is my friend. The media is my friend.&#8221;<br \/><span class=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Editor<br \/>By Eric Sparling<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;The media is my friend. The media is my friend.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Repeat this mantra to yourself over and over again. It&#8217;s often not true, but it will help prepare you for one of the most important tasks you can perform in the fight against breed discrimination:<\/p>\n<p><b>Writing a letter to a newspaper editor.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffordcanada.com\/anti_bsl\/letters.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of Eric&#8217;s article here<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Sparling, a freelance journalist and Staffordshire Bull Terrier owner, has written a guide on how to write an effective letter to a newspaper editor. He starts his article with the mantra &#8220;The media is my friend. The media is my friend.&#8221; Dear EditorBy Eric&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}