{"id":2593,"date":"2013-04-30T10:23:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T09:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2013-05-03T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T09:00:12","slug":"jennie-betty-and-the-changing-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2593","title":{"rendered":"Jennie, Betty and the changing of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 28th April 2013 the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/news\/a-century-of-distinction-100-women-who-changed-the-world-1917427.html\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.independent.co.uk');\">Independent on Sunday <\/a><\/em>listed &#8216;the 100 British women who, arguably, have done most to shape the world we live in today&#8217;. They included two women associated with the OU, Betty Boothroyd, the former OU Chancellor and Jennie Lee about whom it was written \u2018her legacy as a minister in Harold Wilson&#8217;s government included the setting up of the Open University\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 28th April 2013 the Independent on Sunday listed &#8216;the 100 British women who, arguably, have done most to shape the world we live in today&#8217;. They included two women associated with the OU, Betty Boothroyd, the former OU Chancellor and Jennie Lee about whom it was written \u2018her legacy as a minister in [&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":[4],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","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=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2601,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2593"}],"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=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}