{"id":2417,"date":"2012-10-04T08:25:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T07:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2012-10-04T08:25:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T07:25:06","slug":"peas-in-our-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/10\/04\/peas-in-our-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Peas in our time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke briefly at a Food Growing in Schools Task Force conference the other day, offering a summary of the day. \u00a0I'll not trouble you with what I said, though you can see a few presenters' PPts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenorganic.org.uk\/organicgardening\/food-growing-in-schools.php\">here<\/a>, other than to recall the piece of whimsy with which I ended. \u00a0This was that, at the 11th hour, a messenger would come hot-bottom on a Boris Bike from the DfE, and burst into the room waving a piece of paper which said:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Sorry about all that nonsense about academies and nutritional standards; we'll fix it.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>We fully accept all the Task Force recommendations, and will throw our weight behind them.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>We understand that food growing in schools has to be fully integrated with what's taught, and this will feature in the revised national curriculum.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Mr Gove's new mantra is 'Every school a food growing school'.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ah, well!<\/p>\n<p>Had this actually come into being, I'd have suggested a competition for the next day's <em>Daily Mail<\/em> headline (p. 19, probably) announcing this. \u00a0My (winning) entry would have been the title of this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke briefly at a Food Growing in Schools Task Force conference the other day, offering a summary of the day. \u00a0I'll not trouble you with what I said, though you can see a few presenters' PPts here, other than...<\/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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","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=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}