{"id":6170,"date":"2014-11-24T08:37:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2014-11-24T08:37:42","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:37:42","slug":"very-forgettable-samosas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/11\/24\/very-forgettable-samosas\/","title":{"rendered":"Very forgettable samosas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped that no matter how dull the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/11\/21\/children-their-world-their-education-2\/\">seminar<\/a> in Birmingham last Friday might turn out to be, the samosas would be brilliant. \u00a0Not so; the samosas were dull: flaccid, pasty confections; happily, the rest of the lunch on offer was rather good, even though it wasn't obviously labelled, fair-trade, shade-grown, organic, locally-sourced, farm-fresh, free-range, red-tractor, etc, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar turned out (as I'd expected) to be ok\u00a0as well with a good mix of inputs, discussion and reaction, and it was certainly good to be inside the Council House rather than outside in Victoria Square where those attending the German Christmas market (November 21st??) were\u00a0caught in the cold drizzle and were forced to eat sausage and drink dodgy German beer to keep warm. \u00a0And to think that they might have been drinking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyevalleybrewery.co.uk\/ales\/hpa\/\">Hereford Pale Ale<\/a> in the warm, if only they'd walked up the road.<\/p>\n<p>More on this \u2013 the seminar, I mean \u2013 when the inputs are available to share. \u00a0Meanwhile, my quest for excellence in\u00a0samosas continues ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had hoped that no matter how dull the seminar in Birmingham last Friday might turn out to be, the samosas would be brilliant. \u00a0Not so; the samosas were dull: flaccid, pasty confections; happily, the rest of the lunch on...<\/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":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-talks-and-presentations"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","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=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}