{"id":2349,"date":"2012-07-05T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T11:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2012-07-17T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T12:44:10","slug":"re-joyce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"Re: Joyce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2415\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: left;\" title=\"Jurassic Coast\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Jurassic-Coast-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Jurassic-Coast-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Jurassic-Coast.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The broadening of my horizons and my appreciation of life has made joining the OU one of the best decisions I have ever made\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In 1975 Brian Joyce, a self-employed salesman, started to study at the OU as he sought \u2018the pleasure of learning new things\u2019. \u00a0After many years studying with a focus on earth sciences and evolution,\u00a0he gained a degree.\u00a0 You can read his story, one of well over 100 which students and staff have uploaded, here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www8.open.ac.uk\/researchprojects\/historyofou\/memories\/my-15-years-the-open-university\" ><strong>http:\/\/www8.open.ac.uk\/researchprojects\/historyofou\/memories\/my-15-years-the-open-university<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0 Jurassic Coast, made available by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/saphirai\/relationship\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.flickr.com');\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/saphirai\/relationship\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.flickr.com');\"><\/a>Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieila under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License \u00a9 Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieila<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u2018The broadening of my horizons and my appreciation of life has made joining the OU one of the best decisions I have ever made\u2019. In 1975 Brian Joyce, a self-employed salesman, started to study at the OU as he sought \u2018the pleasure of learning new things\u2019. \u00a0After many years studying with a focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"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=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}