{"id":29,"date":"2010-04-15T14:48:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T13:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"A\u00a01974 edition of <em>Open House<\/em>, the Open\u00a0University's staff magazine,\u00a0discussed the prospects of 12 members of OU staff standing for election at the forthcoming general election.\r\n\r\nTwo were successful. Professor Gerry Fowler became Minister of Sta"},"modified":"2010-05-26T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T08:58:41","slug":"election-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Election fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a01974 edition of <em>Open House<\/em>, the Open\u00a0University&#8217;s staff magazine,\u00a0discussed the prospects of 12 members of OU staff standing for election at the forthcoming general election.<\/p>\n<p>Two were successful. Professor Gerry Fowler became Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills and Geoff Edge became MP for Aldridge-Brownhills.<\/p>\n<p>Of course these were only the first of many OU staff members to seek public\u00a0office, most famously the current Prime Minister Gordon Brown is a former tutor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a01974 edition of Open House, the Open\u00a0University&#8217;s staff magazine,\u00a0discussed the prospects of 12 members of OU staff standing for election at the forthcoming general election. Two were successful. Professor Gerry Fowler became Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills and Geoff Edge became MP for Aldridge-Brownhills. Of course these were only the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[60,59],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-brown","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","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=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"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=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}