{"id":568,"date":"2010-11-03T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=568"},"modified":"2010-11-02T13:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T12:19:34","slug":"happy-birthday-jennie-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Jennie Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jennielee.tif\" ><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Jennie-Lee-voting-card.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-582\" title=\"Jennie Lee voting card\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Jennie-Lee-voting-card.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>Today is Jennie Lee&#8217;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Jennie was the Minister in Harold Wilson&#8217;s government responsible for setting up The Open University. It would be hard to argue that the OU would exist in its current form without her influence. For more information about her see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Jennie-Lee.docx\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate we are hosting a workshop &#8211; Opening Up The Open University. For more information see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?page_id=361\" >here<\/a>. There will be a full report of the workshop posted here over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Jennie Lee&#8217;s birthday. Jennie was the Minister in Harold Wilson&#8217;s government responsible for setting up The Open University. It would be hard to argue that the OU would exist in its current form without her influence. For more information about her see here. To celebrate we are hosting a workshop &#8211; Opening Up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44],"tags":[40,4],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-the-ou","category-people","tag-anniversary","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"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=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}