{"id":2662,"date":"2016-03-16T10:05:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T09:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2016-03-16T10:05:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T09:05:17","slug":"death-of-asa-briggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=2662","title":{"rendered":"Death of Asa Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OU Planning Committee and former Chancellor Asa Briggs has died http:\/\/intranet.open.ac.uk\/ouintra\/story.aspx?id=29918<\/p>\n<p>For an account of his role at the OU see the chapter on his relationship with the OU in Miles Taylor, &#8216;The Age of Asa. Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945&#8217;, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. The chapter is &#8216;Asa Briggs and the Opening Up of the Open University&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OU Planning Committee and former Chancellor Asa Briggs has died http:\/\/intranet.open.ac.uk\/ouintra\/story.aspx?id=29918 For an account of his role at the OU see the chapter on his relationship with the OU in Miles Taylor, &#8216;The Age of Asa. Lord Briggs, Public Life and History in Britain since 1945&#8217;, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. The chapter is &#8216;Asa Briggs and [&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-2662","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\/2662","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=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2662"}],"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=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}