{"id":1320,"date":"2011-05-04T15:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2011-05-17T11:18:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T10:18:02","slug":"first-contributions-to-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=1320","title":{"rendered":"First contributions to website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/my-story.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1321\" title=\"my story\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/my-story-300x112.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/my-story-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/my-story.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With holidays over and word slowly spreading about the new History of the OU <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/historyoftheou\" >website<\/a>, it is pleasing to see the first user-submitted stories appearing. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first student to make a contribution to writing the history of the OU by sharing her <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.open.ac.uk\/researchprojects\/historyofou\/memories\/my-ou-journey\" >story<\/a>\u00a0is Jenny Turner who started in 1991 and is now on her 26th OU course. The first staff member to give their <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.open.ac.uk\/researchprojects\/historyofou\/memories\/more-employer\" >impressions<\/a> of working at the OU for the past 14 years is Brian Richardson from the Department of Biological Sciences. These testimonies make a really valuable contribution to understanding the impact the OU has made on so many people&#8217;s lives.\u00a0Hopefully they will inspire others to add their stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With holidays over and word slowly spreading about the new History of the OU website, it is pleasing to see the first user-submitted stories appearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-the-ou","category-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1339,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}