{"id":5491,"date":"2025-07-28T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:20:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:20:23","slug":"letters-august-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/letters-august-september-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters &#8211; August \/ September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">All readers \u2013 not just CAMRA members \u2013 are invited to submit letters for publication to <em>London Drinker<\/em> but please remember that the letters column is intended for debate and constructive criticism.\u00a0 The editor reserves the right not to print any contributions that are otherwise.\u00a0 Please e-mail letters to<em> <a href=\"mailto:ldnews.hedger@gmail.com\">ldnews.hedger@gmail.com<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Please state \u2018letter for publication\u2019 so as to avoid any misunderstandings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hard times<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result of your <a href=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/pub-heritage-march-2025\/\">feature on the Lord Southampton<\/a> in Kentish Town we paid a visit to the pub.\u00a0 Whilst the restoration looks great, the pub is lacking in basic creature comfort.\u00a0 An hour spent sitting on the hard bench seat shown in your article was more than enough for me.\u00a0 On the subject of pub closures, I wonder how many would go to the wall if they didn&#8217;t show televised sport, especially Premier League and Champions League football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>David Docherty<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All readers \u2013 not just CAMRA members \u2013 are invited to submit letters for publication to London Drinker but please remember that the letters column is intended for debate and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}