{"id":291,"date":"2008-11-23T07:08:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T15:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2023-01-02T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T19:36:44","slug":"et-04-business-writing-an-internal-bad-news-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/23\/et-04-business-writing-an-internal-bad-news-message\/","title":{"rendered":"ET 04 &#8211; Business Writing: An Internal Bad News Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"videoWrapper\">\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ww1ond3f_tA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/business-writing\/\"><strong>Email Tune-up<\/strong><\/a> we&#8217;re looking at an email from Jenny, who is responsible for her company&#8217;s IT services. She has written the email to give her colleagues some bad news: the office email server will be &#8220;down&#8221; due to a technical problem. When a server goes &#8220;down&#8221;, it means the server has been taken offline for maintenance because of a problem.<\/p>\n<p>[tp no_translate=&#8221;y&#8221;]<strong>Premium Members: <a href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/transcripts\/ET04SN.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">PDF Transcript<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/ET04-Bad-News-Messages.m4v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast Video<\/a><\/strong>[\/tp]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improve you English email writing skills with this lesson on how to write an email explaining bad news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","powered_cache_disable_cache":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45,37,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19166,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/19166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}