{"id":679,"date":"2010-11-30T13:28:53","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T12:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-11-30T13:28:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T12:28:53","slug":"jennie-lee-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"Jennie Lee blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Interest in one of those closely associated with the foundation of the OU, Jennie Lee, continues as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourlist.org\/the-labour-party-or-nothing-jennie-lee\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.labourlist.org');\">blog<\/a> demonstrates. It suggests that Jennie Lee was<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>extraordinarily effective [at] forcing through changes which were either deeply unpopular or of no interest to her Labour colleagues&#8230; The very existence of the Open University can be linked to Jennie\u2019s grinding determination to see the project through on her own terms\u2026 the Open University is one of the most enduring monuments to the Wilson years, made possible by Jennie\u2019s stubborn resistance to its abandonment or dilution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interest in one of those closely associated with the foundation of the OU, Jennie Lee, continues as this blog demonstrates. It suggests that Jennie Lee was extraordinarily effective [at] forcing through changes which were either deeply unpopular or of no interest to her Labour colleagues&#8230; The very existence of the Open University can be linked [&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-679","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\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"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=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}