{"id":576,"date":"2011-05-14T18:22:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T17:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=576"},"modified":"2011-05-14T18:22:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T17:22:42","slug":"greatness-thrust-upon-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/05\/14\/greatness-thrust-upon-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatness thrust upon me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you just sit there and something nice happens. \u00a0This was my experience recently when I was invited to be President of the <em>National Association of Environmental Education<\/em> \u2014 NAEE. \u00a0 This, almost venerable by now, institution has survived whilst national policies have waxed and waned, \u00a0curriculum reviews (and institutions) have come and gone, and the Department for Education has changed its name more times that a typical nuclear reprocessing site or dodgy Spanish property outfit. \u00a0I have great admiration for the efforts of the very dedicated people who have kept the flag flying despite all the funding issues they have faced. \u00a0 That the Association's journal <em>Environmental Education<\/em> is still published, is another testament to their dedication \u2014 and is evidence that there is still a need for what the Association has to offer.<\/p>\n<p>I went to a meeting of the Executive at the weekend after a gap of at least 10 years \u2014 it was just like old times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, you just sit there and something nice happens. \u00a0This was my experience recently when I was invited to be President of the National Association of Environmental Education \u2014 NAEE. \u00a0 This, almost venerable by now, institution has survived whilst...<\/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-576","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\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}