{"id":92,"date":"2010-05-18T16:29:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=92"},"modified":"2010-05-26T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T08:14:34","slug":"another-40th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Another 40th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_156\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-156\" title=\"Lord Mountbatton \" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Lord-Mountbatton-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lord Mountbatton at Walton Hall\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Lord-Mountbatton-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Lord-Mountbatton-793x1024.jpg 793w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Lord-Mountbatton.jpg 1445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lord Mountbatton at Walton Hall<\/p><\/div>\n<div>Today marks another anniversary for The Open University. On 18 May 1970\u00a0Earl Mountbatten formally opened the\u00a0Open University with the unveiling of the foundation stone outside the Walton Hall building.<\/div>\n<p>The University had moved to the site with the support of Milton Keynes Development Corporation in September 1969.\u00a0At this point forty years ago it was doing its best to attract applicants by an August deadline to start in January 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks another anniversary for The Open University. On 18 May 1970\u00a0Earl Mountbatten formally opened the\u00a0Open University with the unveiling of the foundation stone outside the Walton Hall building. The University had moved to the site with the support of Milton Keynes Development Corporation in September 1969.\u00a0At this point forty years ago it was doing [&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],"tags":[40,42,43,41],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-the-ou","tag-anniversary","tag-milton-keynes","tag-mountbatten","tag-walton-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"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=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/History-of-the-OU\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}