{"id":661,"date":"2004-11-09T18:34:41","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T18:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/e-university\/"},"modified":"2004-11-09T18:34:41","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T18:34:41","slug":"e-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/e-university\/","title":{"rendered":"E-University:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This quote from BBC News <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/education\/3995295.stm\" target=\"_new\">says it all<\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;The ill-fated attempt to set up a UK &#8216;e-university&#8217; was described by the higher education minister as &#8216;rubbish'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The only other question is whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/comedy\/guide\/articles\/d\/daytodaythe_66602470.shtml\" target=\"_new\">The Day Today<\/a> team will sue for copyright infringement.<\/p>\n<p>A piece of news that bypassed me over the weekend was that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fred-dibnah.co.uk\/\">Fred Dibnah<\/a> has died. Only a week after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/hometruths\/20041030_peel_tribute.shtml\" target=\"_new\">John Peel<\/a> left us deprived. Both items affected me more that you (and I) would think. The world is poorer for their passing.<br \/>\nOn the other hand it does mean there has been, and will be, quite a lot of good telly for a while. John Peel tributes all over the shop and UK TV History showed Dibnah&#8217;s 1978 steeplejack documentary again today. They&#8217;ll live on.<br \/>\nI would have said that the good die young&#8230;but neither of them was spring chickens. Whatever the fuck a spring chicken is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote from BBC News says it all: &#8220;The ill-fated attempt to set up a UK &#8216;e-university&#8217; was described by the higher education minister as &#8216;rubbish&#8217;&#8221; The only other question is whether The Day Today team will sue for copyright infringement. A piece of news that bypassed me over the weekend was that Fred Dibnah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}