{"id":6154,"date":"2014-11-11T11:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6154"},"modified":"2014-11-11T11:45:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T11:45:54","slug":"aichi-nagoya-3-opening-gambits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/11\/11\/aichi-nagoya-3-opening-gambits\/","title":{"rendered":"Aichi-Nagoya 3 \u2013 Opening gambits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear via social media that the opening morning of the Aichi-Nagoya ESDFest was a gas, and rather surreal in places, with dancing girls, drums, violins, a crown prince, a real princess, and a video from Ban Ki Moon. \u00a0It seems that there was even a plummy\u00a0English compare, which makes it 5 from the UK by my count \u2013 clearly, our influence is growing.<\/p>\n<p>As for the content, there was a\u00a0self-congratulatory air, we're told, with much trumpeting of how great\u00a0the Decade has been, with little\u00a0sense of urgency, and\u00a0hardly a mention\u00a0of the challenges that form the basis of\u00a0the Global Action Programme. \u00a0Twas ever thus, of course \u2013 always pre-judge the evaluation by saying how great things are \/ have been \/ will be. \u00a0It's what UNESCO does best \u2013 it is a political outfit, after all.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for balance, here's the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/unesco-world-conference-on-esd-2014\/about-the-conference\/dynamic-content-single-view\/news\/opening_ceremony_of_the_world_conference_on_education_for_sustainable_development_a_call_to_action\/#.VGH1Mb7V3Sc\">official\u00a0<\/a>line.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear via social media that the opening morning of the Aichi-Nagoya ESDFest was a gas, and rather surreal in places, with dancing girls, drums, violins, a crown prince, a real princess, and a video from Ban Ki Moon. \u00a0It...<\/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-6154","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\/6154","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=6154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}