{"id":623,"date":"2008-04-17T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=623"},"modified":"2008-04-17T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T22:06:00","slug":"gordon-brown-and-my-old-biology-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/gordon-brown-and-my-old-biology-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown and my old biology teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/2421229197\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2363\/2421229197_7a58964efb_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/2421229197\/\">Manuscript by G. Brown<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>My biology teacher in high school, Mads Ole, wrote everything on the blackboard in all-caps.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve only rarely seen anybody boycotting the lower-case letters.<\/p>\n<p>However, today there was an intriguing photo in The Herald showing Gordon Brown yawning his head off as he was about to give a speech at the UN (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/coffeehouse\/615946\/the-prime-ministers-active-un-diplomacy.thtml\">this<\/a>).  Intriguing not because of the yawn, but because it showed a page of his manuscript.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all hand-written capitals!<\/p>\n<p>Is the prime minister insane, a technophobe, or what?<\/p>\n<p>I thought prime ministers had speech-writers, and given that he has bad eye-sight, computers can easily print out a speech in 24 points.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manuscript by G. Brown Originally uploaded by viralbus My biology teacher in high school, Mads Ole, wrote everything on the blackboard in all-caps. Since then, I&#8217;ve only rarely seen anybody boycotting the lower-case letters. However, today there was an intriguing photo in The Herald showing Gordon Brown yawning his head off as he was about to give a speech at the UN (see also this). Intriguing not because of the yawn, but because it showed a page of his manuscript. It&#8217;s all hand-written capitals! Is the prime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}