{"id":6963,"date":"2017-05-05T06:06:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T06:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2017-05-05T06:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T06:06:34","slug":"dont-ask-wwf-how-to-grow-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/05\/05\/dont-ask-wwf-how-to-grow-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Don't ask WWF or the Guardian how to grow food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/get-growing-at-school\/gallery\/2017\/feb\/21\/ready-steady-grow-wwf-encourages-schools-to-take-the-classroom-outside\">picture<\/a> in a recent\u00a0Guardian of a boy with two potatoes firmly impaled on a garden fork.\u00a0 The caption is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"A pupil at Coastlands Community primary school in Pembrokeshire shows there\u2019s a real appetite for growing food. \u00a0Schools are leading the way in promoting healthy eating, with 77% of children saying that they learn the most about food at school, according to a 2016 WWF survey of 500 UK parents and their children aged 7-12 years.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whilst I don't really know what \"<em>learn the most about food at school<\/em>\" means \u2013 compared to where? \u00a0home, presumably. \u00a0One thing is clear, this hapless pupil doesn't know enough to avoid sticking his fork through the potato crop and hence reducing its quality and value. \u00a0Does The Guardian, I wonder?<\/p>\n<p>Or was this a bright idea from WWF for a photoshoot? \u00a0If so, it makes you wonder how little\u00a0WWF knows about food growing and harvesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a\u00a0picture in a recent\u00a0Guardian of a boy with two potatoes firmly impaled on a garden fork.\u00a0 The caption is: \"A pupil at Coastlands Community primary school in Pembrokeshire shows there\u2019s a real appetite for growing food. \u00a0Schools are...<\/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-6963","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\/6963","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=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}