{"id":7788,"date":"2020-10-05T08:07:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T08:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7788"},"modified":"2020-10-05T08:07:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T08:07:25","slug":"whos-to-replace-sir-david","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/10\/05\/whos-to-replace-sir-david\/","title":{"rendered":"Who's to replace Sir David?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it's an indecent question as the poor man's not dead yet, but the race has been on for a while now to find the new David Attenborough. \u00a0The BBC 's quite desperate about this and has come up with a set of 10 criteria and his replacement must meet all of them:<\/p>\n<p>young, female, non-white, telegenic, articulate, social-media savvy, professionally respectable, acknowledged as a leader, published, and the right sort of activist (ie, can be trusted to rock the boat in a gentle sort of way, and not create too many threatening waves).<\/p>\n<p>Happily, Chris Packham is ruled out on at least 5 grounds. \u00a0So who can it be?<\/p>\n<p>I think there's only one possibility: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdgirluk.com\">Mya-Rose Craig<\/a>, who styles herself Birdgirl. \u00a0With an honorary degree under her belt, programmes on BBC radio, a six-figure book deal for her diaries, and a history of respectable activism (and all by the age of 18), who can possibly compete?<\/p>\n<p>The only fly in the ointment is all those air miles she's racked up birdwatching over 17 years. \u00a0But that'll be fine; the BBC understands all about air miles and to understand all, is to forgive all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it's an indecent question as the poor man's not dead yet, but the race has been on for a while now to find the new David Attenborough. \u00a0The BBC 's quite desperate about this and has come up...<\/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-7788","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\/7788","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=7788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}