{"id":792,"date":"2011-07-29T08:38:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=792"},"modified":"2011-07-29T08:38:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T07:38:09","slug":"breakfasting-with-the-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/07\/29\/breakfasting-with-the-few\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfasting with The Few"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a privilege this week to breakfast in the same room as Battle of Britain veterans en route to a ceremony near Oxford involving Spitfires and a new flying training school \u2014 the finer details of the event escape me. \u00a0It was impossible not to eavesdrop on their conversations \u2014 moral failing though that is \u2014 and their views on Churchill were not quite the hagiographic history presented in nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blenheimpalace.com\/\">Blenheim<\/a> where you are spoilt for choice of family heroes (and where the villains and ne'ers-do-well are glossed over).<\/p>\n<p>All this took place in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodstock-oxfordshire.co.uk\/\">Woodstock<\/a>, a town which, in managing no-cost car parking, excellent bus services, clean streets, fine pubs, artisan shops, only one small supermarket (the Co-op, of course), and the total absence of chain stores, must be doing something right in relation to <em>some<\/em> aspects of sustainability (depending on your perspective, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a privilege this week to breakfast in the same room as Battle of Britain veterans en route to a ceremony near Oxford involving Spitfires and a new flying training school \u2014 the finer details of the event escape...<\/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-792","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\/792","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=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}