{"id":1043,"date":"2011-11-11T17:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2011-11-11T17:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:45:57","slug":"the-cat-in-the-mach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/11\/11\/the-cat-in-the-mach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cat in the Mach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Dr <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seussville.com\/books\/book_detail.php?isbn=9780394800011\">Seuss<\/a> who probably never went to either Machynlleth (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesdirectory.co.uk\/Towns_in_Wales\/Machynlleth_Town.htm\">Mach<\/a>) or the Centre for Alternative Technology (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cat.org.uk\/\">Cat<\/a>) even when its technology was actually alternative as opposed to pretty mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed my visit to the Cat \u2013 even on a gloomy November day when it cannot have been at its best \u2013 and my overnight in Mach, as the locals seem to call it (or Mac, if you're English) \u2013 thus relieving everyone of the need of excessive syllables.<\/p>\n<p>I am, however, still working out what I made of it all, and thinking about \u2013 as they are \u2013 what their best role and niche now might be. \u00a0My money would be on joining the impressive list of Welsh museums as the Cat has good energy and materials stories about triumphs and disasters to tell, that surely can help us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With apologies to Dr Seuss who probably never went to either Machynlleth (Mach) or the Centre for Alternative Technology (the Cat) even when its technology was actually alternative as opposed to pretty mainstream. I enjoyed my visit to the Cat...<\/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":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","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=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}