{"id":6740,"date":"2016-08-10T07:08:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6740"},"modified":"2016-08-10T07:08:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T07:08:07","slug":"weec-at-the-knees-at-the-mere-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/08\/10\/weec-at-the-knees-at-the-mere-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"WEEC at the knees at the mere thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumour has it that WEEC is looking for an outfit in the UK to host a forthcoming conference \u2013 only organisations with the requisite quotient\u00a0of gullibility and desperation need apply.<\/p>\n<p>I'm reminded of what Richard Ingrams said when Mrs Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979: that as a private citizen he was appalled, but as a satirist, he was delighted. \u00a0For satirist, read blogger, and you sense my mood; I can hardly contain my joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumour has it that WEEC is looking for an outfit in the UK to host a forthcoming conference \u2013 only organisations with the requisite quotient\u00a0of gullibility and desperation need apply. I'm reminded of what Richard Ingrams said when Mrs Thatcher...<\/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-6740","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\/6740","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=6740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}