{"id":6073,"date":"2014-07-29T06:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T06:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6073"},"modified":"2014-07-29T06:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T06:40:56","slug":"blackberries-causing-moral-panic-in-islington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/07\/29\/blackberries-causing-moral-panic-in-islington\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackberries causing moral panic in Islington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Committed urban types, happily\u00a0back in London after a rare foray into rural parts, are said to be worried that the early sightings (and tastings) of ripe blackberries are harbingers of early-onset climate change.\u00a0 The panic was enhanced, no doubt, because a\u00a0favourite store, Waitrose, is also full of the bulbous, glistening, black berries.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns reached the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/climate-change\/the-recent-warm-weather-is-causing-an-abundance-of-earlyripening-blackberries-across-the-british-isles-9630851.html\">newspapers<\/a> the other day.\u00a0 Happily, someone was eventually found with enough nous to know that there is huge variation in the ripening times (and sizes) of summer fruit \u2013 something most of us safely beyond\u00a0the North Circular Road already knew. \u00a0I blame all that expensive public school education: too much Cicero and Seneca at the expense of common science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Committed urban types, happily\u00a0back in London after a rare foray into rural parts, are said to be worried that the early sightings (and tastings) of ripe blackberries are harbingers of early-onset climate change.\u00a0 The panic was enhanced, no doubt, because...<\/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-6073","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\/6073","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=6073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}