{"id":6119,"date":"2014-09-29T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6119"},"modified":"2014-09-29T07:33:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T07:33:03","slug":"cheap-at-half-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/09\/29\/cheap-at-half-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap at half the price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plymouthherald.co.uk\"><em>Plymouth Herald<\/em><\/a> \u2013 essential reading, I find \u2013 recently reported that the city's University had splashed out a sum not unadjacent to \u00a3150k on 7 Chairs. \u00a0 \"Gosh\", that's cheap, I thought. \u00a0I know professors are poorly\u00a0paid, but really, are things so bad down on the peninsular?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out, however, that these are actual chairs (not Chairs), and of a carefully-crafted, designer nature that befits an institution on the Up. \u00a0Good for grandee bottoms at Graduation, it seems. \u00a0Not everyone is thrilled. \u00a0\u00a0The story is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.plymouthherald.co.uk\/Shame-Thrones-politicians-union-leaders-hit-150\/story-22952217-detail\/story.html\">here<\/a>,\u00a0and has nothing, we're told, to do with the VC's extended gardening leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plymouth Herald \u2013 essential reading, I find \u2013 recently reported that the city's University had splashed out a sum not unadjacent to \u00a3150k on 7 Chairs. \u00a0 \"Gosh\", that's cheap, I thought. \u00a0I know professors are poorly\u00a0paid, but really,...<\/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-6119","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\/6119","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=6119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}