{"id":8615,"date":"2024-07-10T07:33:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:33:16","slug":"signing-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2024\/07\/10\/signing-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Signing Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the last post on my University of Bath blog. \u00a0I've been posting since June 10th 2009 but, 15 years and 2499 posts later, I really have to close it down if I'm to realise my 2010 retirement ambition which was to read more than I write \u2013 a project that hasn't been going too well lately. \u00a0The advent of a new UK government is a good place to stop as otherwise I'd be tempted to keep on scribbling.<\/p>\n<p>My first posts were about the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2009\/06\/10\/south-west-learning-for-sustainability-coalition\/\">South west Learning for Sustainability Coalition<\/a> of blessed memory, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2009\/06\/10\/judging-the-effectiveness-of-a-sustainable-school-a-brief-exploration-of-issues\/\">Judging the Effectiveness of a Sustainable School<\/a> which seems to have gone out of fashion. \u00a0My last two (not counting this one) were about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2024\/07\/03\/technocratic-governance-and-democracy\/\">Technocratic Governance and Democracy<\/a> and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2024\/07\/01\/the-education-system-and-social-norms-and-values\/\">The Education System and Social Norms and Values.<\/a> \u00a0The difference between these topics is considerable and the range exemplifies the sort of things I have written about over the years.<\/p>\n<p>All my posts will remain on the University system for a while and so anyone can sample the detail. \u00a0Not that anyone likely will. \u00a0I wrote this blog for me and only rarely tried to promote it. \u00a0It acted as a kind of diary in the spirit of Gwendolen Fairfax. \u00a0I didn't expect anyone to read it, but some kind souls did, sometimes leaving a comment or too. \u00a0I was grateful for that feedback.<\/p>\n<p>There remains much to write about, but that's for someone else. \u00a0Ciao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the last post on my University of Bath blog. \u00a0I've been posting since June 10th 2009 but, 15 years and 2499 posts later, I really have to close it down if I'm to realise my 2010 retirement...<\/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-8615","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\/8615","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=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}