{"id":1000,"date":"2011-10-22T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T16:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2011-10-22T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T16:58:48","slug":"the-tamsin-tristram-tamara-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/10\/22\/the-tamsin-tristram-tamara-index\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tamsin Tristram Tamara Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 30 years ago, when I spent more time than was good for me driving round the west country watching student teachers work in schools, I developed \u2013 tentatively \u2013 what I called the <em>Tamsin Tristram Tamara Index. <\/em> I'd check the names on class registers to see how often Tamsin, Tristram, and Tamara (and a good few non-alliterative others) cropped up. \u00a0Depending on the score, I'd form a rough and ready view on the social catchment of the school \u2013 which I'd then check out with the teachers. \u00a0It tended to work.<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this the other day as I wandered past St Pauls and had a good view of the anti-capitalist protesters out-staying the cathedral's hospitality. \u00a0I wondered how well the index would work here, and was pleased to see at least one Tristan recorded by the Daily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2049722\/Occupy-London-St-Pauls-protest-camp-includes-extra-Downton-Abbey.html\">Mail<\/a>. \u00a0 I suspect that Tamara and Tamsin were there as well. \u00a0Maybe they were in that bastion of anti-capitalism \u2013 Starbucks \u2013 along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/tto\/public\/profile\/Rhoda-Buchanan\">Ev<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 30 years ago, when I spent more time than was good for me driving round the west country watching student teachers work in schools, I developed \u2013 tentatively \u2013 what I called the Tamsin Tristram Tamara Index. I'd check...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}