{"id":468,"date":"2010-11-15T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:31:07","slug":"never-upset-an-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/never-upset-an-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"One Great Example of Why You Should Never Upset an Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/how-to-be-a-good-editor\/\">good <strong>editor<\/strong><\/a> at the Toronto Star took matters into his own hands last year when the newspaper announced that they would be outsourcing over 100 sub-editing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\">proofreading and editing<\/a> jobs. Here was his response to the internal memo announcing the planned job cuts. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Star-Editor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-469 aligncenter\" title=\"Star Editor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Star-Editor.jpg\" alt=\"Extensive editing of an internal memo\" width=\"640\" height=\"1059\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there was one method of demonstrating how skilled and important editors are, then that was it!<\/p>\n<p>If you need help with your written English, consider using our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/Rewriting-Services\/\">rewriting services <\/a>to make sure your document doesn&#8217;t get the same treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One good editor at the Toronto Star took matters into his own hands last year when the newspaper announced that they would be outsourcing over 100 sub-editing, proofreading and editing jobs. Here was his response to the internal memo announcing the planned job cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun-and-fails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9121,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/9121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}