{"id":2083,"date":"2015-08-12T21:03:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T21:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2015-08-12T21:03:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T21:03:20","slug":"informality-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"Informality (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a fairly informal person, but occasionally even I get a surprise, like this recent email from HMRC:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hmrc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hmrc.png\" alt=\"HMRC: Hi DR COLIN GRAEME JOHNSON\" width=\"358\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2084\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hmrc.png 358w, https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/hmrc-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In just a generation we have gone from addressing each other as &#8220;Sir&#8221; and &#8220;Madam&#8221; to the point where one of the stuffiest parts of government says &#8220;Hi!&#8221; to me. To people of my father&#8217;s generation, who struggled with their doctor referring to them by their first name, this shift would have been almost incomprehensible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a fairly informal person, but occasionally even I get a surprise, like this recent email from HMRC: In just a generation we have gone from addressing each other as &#8220;Sir&#8221; and &#8220;Madam&#8221; to the point where one of the stuffiest parts of government says &#8220;Hi!&#8221; to me. To people of my father&#8217;s generation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[42,23],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2085,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}