{"id":7546,"date":"2019-09-13T06:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T06:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7546"},"modified":"2019-09-13T12:58:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T12:58:17","slug":"greta-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/09\/13\/greta-the-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta the musical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone who should, perhaps, have known better persuaded Greta Thunberg to deliver her message (old folks have failed, politicians have failed, the Earth is burning, woe is us, I don't do humour, etc) to a musical background provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/the1975.com\">The 1975<\/a>. \u00a0No, I'd not heard of them either, despite distinctly remembering 1975, the difficult year for anyone to live through.<\/p>\n<p>The piece is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=7&amp;v=zq4eCQCgQw8\">here<\/a>. \u00a0But it's more of a dirge than catchy tune, and, although it only goes on for 5 minutes, it seemed far longer to me. \u00a0I wonder if Greta listened to it herself as she tripped across the Atlantic on a boat that was so low carbon that it had a bucket instead of a toilet. \u00a0Not a great model for social progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone who should, perhaps, have known better persuaded Greta Thunberg to deliver her message (old folks have failed, politicians have failed, the Earth is burning, woe is us, I don't do humour, etc) to a musical background provided by The...<\/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-7546","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\/7546","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=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}