{"id":519,"date":"2011-04-26T09:31:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T08:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=519"},"modified":"2011-04-26T09:31:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T08:31:58","slug":"i-being-born-a-sinner-and-distressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/04\/26\/i-being-born-a-sinner-and-distressed\/","title":{"rendered":"I, being Born a Sinner and Distressed, ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you've been a sinner but have now seen the light, there's nothing like a public confession to let the world know of your repentance, and to show off your shiny new anti-whatever-it-was credentials and zeal. \u00a0St. Paul has a good track record here, as do many environmentalists and other campaigners who have publicly taken on, or given up, various lifestyle options. \u00a0In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolfoodhub.org\/clairemilne.htm\">Claire Milne's<\/a> case it is flying. \u00a0Claire is a member of staff at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolfoodhub.org\/home.htm\">Bristol Food Hub<\/a>, and has been in the news lately commenting on a little local difficulty that Tesco has had in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/apr\/22\/bristol-riot-police-injured\">Stokes Croft<\/a> part of the city where it is trying to establish a niche for its stockholders.<\/p>\n<p>So, no more brilliant Bristol International Airport and rapturous Ryanair \u2014 almost a holiday in themselves, of course \u2014 for lucky Claire; how I envy her. \u00a0 I dwell on Ms Milne, not because she's in any sense unusual or remarkable, but because I think that she has come up with the best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/mea-culpa.html\">mea culpa<\/a> statement I have ever seen. \u00a0Here it is. \u00a0Enjoy ...<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Claire's work draws on her Masters in Social Anthropology of Development, BSc in Psychology, and professional background in global social justice, along with a lifetime of independent travel \u2013 prior to her growing awareness of the climate-criminal credentials of air travel!\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you've been a sinner but have now seen the light, there's nothing like a public confession to let the world know of your repentance, and to show off your shiny new anti-whatever-it-was credentials and zeal. \u00a0St. Paul has a...<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}