{"id":717,"date":"2011-06-30T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T08:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=717"},"modified":"2011-06-30T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T08:53:02","slug":"like-the-poor-will-the-fafferati-always-be-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/06\/30\/like-the-poor-will-the-fafferati-always-be-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Like the poor, will the Fafferati always be with us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new neologism (tautology, perhaps) this morning. \u00a0Catching up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/commentators\/simon-carr\/simon-carr-save-us-from-fafferati-telling-those-who-know-what-to-do-what-to-do-2304088.html\">Simon Carr<\/a> over breakfast, I came upon his coining of \" fafferati \" which he defines as that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"wide conspiracy of over-educated, self-soaping professionals who don't know what to do telling people who do know what to do what to do\".<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carr acknowledges the contribution of Lord Maurice Glasman to this like of thinking, and\u00a0had the inaptly named, but appropriately shamed,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqc.org.uk\/\">Quality Care Commission<\/a> in mind, but candidates for this dubious accolade seem all around us, and education is not immune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new neologism (tautology, perhaps) this morning. \u00a0Catching up with Simon Carr over breakfast, I came upon his coining of \" fafferati \" which he defines as that \"wide conspiracy of over-educated, self-soaping professionals who don't know what to do...<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}