{"id":7444,"date":"2019-04-25T06:12:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2019-04-25T06:12:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T06:12:56","slug":"there-were-four-protesters-from-stroud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/04\/25\/there-were-four-protesters-from-stroud\/","title":{"rendered":"There were four protesters from Stroud ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pity Labour Party stalwart David Lambert, 60, who walked for eight days from Stroud to Islington in order to show love, honour and devotion to his Leader by chaining himself and three comrades to the Leader\u2019s garden fence. \u00a0This was part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rebellion.earth\">XR protest<\/a> last week. \u00a0<em>Chagrin<\/em>, then, that the Leader ignored the Stroud Four and refused to accept a gift of chocolates (fair trade of course) wrapped in a \u201clove hamper\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a classic piece of self-criticism that would have done credit to the Cultural Revolution, the four refused to blame the Leader. \u00a0An unchained but chastened Richard House, 64, was quoted in the Times saying, \u201cWe feel some guilt to have done something that has placed someone\u2019s family life under duress.\u201d \u00a0Tracey Williams, 55, added, \u201cwe\u2019re decrying our own action, and that shows the gravity of the situation.\u201d \u00a0And they had to endure seeing themselves \u2013 <i>encha\u00een\u00e9<\/i> \u2013 pictured on the Times' front page.<\/p>\n<p>As Oscar Wilde almost said, you\u2019d need a heart of stone to read about this without laughing. \u00a0But as they are all from Stroud, and allowances have to be made, I feel a tribute is due:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 There were four protesters from Stroud<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 Who wished to stand out from the crowd<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 So they went up to town<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 And sat chained on the ground<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0 But their Leader was not to be wowed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pity Labour Party stalwart David Lambert, 60, who walked for eight days from Stroud to Islington in order to show love, honour and devotion to his Leader by chaining himself and three comrades to the Leader\u2019s garden fence. \u00a0This was...<\/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-7444","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\/7444","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=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}