{"id":911,"date":"2021-10-13T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/?p=911"},"modified":"2021-10-12T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T14:00:46","slug":"climate-change-and-creativity-interview-with-sally-oreilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/climate-change-and-creativity-interview-with-sally-oreilly\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change and Creativity: Interview with Sally O\u2019Reilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sally O\u2019Reilly is a novelist and Senior Lecturer here at the Open University\u2019s Department of English and Creative Writing, where her role as Media Lead has included editing this blog. Before Sally\u2019s appointment as a Central Academic in 2014, she\u2019d already worked here for many years as an Associate Lecturer. But Sally\u2019s long relationship with the OU is about to evolve as she is now making the leap to fulltime writing. Ahead of her departure, Sally\u2019s successor as Media Lead, Emma Claire Sweeney, has seized the opportunity to ask Sally about her recent research into climate change and creativity \u2013 an area where Sally hopes to continue collaborating with OU colleagues.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-911 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/climate-change-and-creativity-interview-with-sally-oreilly\/oip-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OIP-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/climate-change-and-creativity-interview-with-sally-oreilly\/oip\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OIP-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/climate-change-and-creativity-interview-with-sally-oreilly\/514v0v7vjl-_sx326_bo1204203200_\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/514v0v7VJL._SX326_BO1204203200_-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/climate-change-and-creativity-interview-with-sally-oreilly\/51cqy78ioml-_ac_us218_\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51cqY78IomL._AC_US218_.-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51cqY78IomL._AC_US218_.-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51cqY78IomL._AC_US218_..jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-915 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>Emma: How do you think creative writing might play a role in\u00a0addressing the societal challenges posed by climate\u00a0<\/em><em>change?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-917 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>Sally: Like so many people, I am increasingly alarmed by the climate crisis and I also feel unsure what I can do to help. It\u2019s hard to see a way in which any one person can make a difference, and there are two default settings \u2013 thinking about something else, or assuming a position of nihilistic fatalism. But what I\u2019ve realised is that it\u2019s not about any one person, it\u2019s about the power of collective action and social change, and while one person is powerless alone, if you can start communicating with like-minded people, astonishing changes can be made.<\/p>\n<p>And while, at first, I thought that trying to address these issues was something I must do outside my work and writing time, I saw eventually that writing creatively is directly related to the climate crisis, because writers can (perhaps) encapsulate what this means in human terms, and be part of a movement to reimagine the world.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve talked about this in three videos recorded for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Writing the Climate #1 with Dr. Sally O&#039;Reilly - &#039;Weather&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rEao_sqCJw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Writing the Climate #2 with Dr. Sally O&#039;Reilly - &#039;Findings&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jr9amKiUqKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Writing the Climate #3 with Dr. Sally O&#039;Reilly - &#039;The Machine Stops&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0-q96Dtb4Dg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imaginative writing can seem like an adjunct, a \u2018nice to have\u2019, rather than being essential to society like (say) physics. But if you look at the way people turned to books, film and TV during the lockdown, you see how vital narrative is to everyone. So writing can both help people process what is going on, and help communicate the situation \u2013 but without pushing an overt \u2018message\u2019 because there we have another pitfall, \u00a0becoming polemical or seeming to preach.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-915 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>Emma: Can you name a few contemporary writers who you feel have navigated this territory particularly well?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-917 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>I really like the way that a fiction writers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/feb\/08\/jenny-offill-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Jenny Offill<\/a> can play on our sense of unease by weaving alarming statistics about climate, preppers and the coming apocalypse into a contemporary realist narrative. It is the very ordinariness of the story that makes it terrifying.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I\u2019m in the middle of a fascinating book called <em>Being a Human<\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk\/news\/charles-foster-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Charles Foster<\/a>, which isn\u2019t overtly about climate change, but about the way in which humans lived for many thousands of years, as Palaeolithic hunter gatherers. They lived long, healthy lives, their carbon footprint was zero and they produced visual art of stunning sophistication. Our view of modernity as being part of a post-Enlightenment process of constant improvement does not stand much scrutiny if you take the long view, and the despoliation of the planet is part of that. What\u2019s particularly interesting about Foster, who is an extraordinary writer, a sort of modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/people\/william-blake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >William Blake<\/a>, is that he bends genre in this book. Ostensibly, it\u2019s creative nonfiction, but he brings in the ghost figures of a character named X and his son, spirits from the Palaeolithic age. His writing reminds me of both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bl.uk\/people\/ted-hughes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Ted Hughes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Alan-Garner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Alan Garner<\/a>, the sense of the numinous in nature, the mystery in being. And Foster also embodies the meeting of scientific, empirical knowledge and creativity \u2013 he has studied veterinary medicine, he is barrister, and he has a wild imagination.<\/p>\n<p><em>Emma: <\/em><em>You curated this autumn\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/arts\/research\/contemporary-cultures-of-writing\/seminars-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Climate Change and Creativity<\/a> series for the OU\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/arts\/research\/contemporary-cultures-of-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Contemporary Cultures of Writing<\/a> research group. Tell us a bit more about this series.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-917 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>Sally: I invited poets, fiction writers, scientists and activists to talk about how distilling observations about the natural world and telling stories relates to the present moment and our choices about the climate. I\u2019m aware of my own ignorance here. My writing has not focussed on climate previously, and so it is as steep a learning curve for me as it is for anyone. But in the research I have done so far, I can see how this issue connects with so many other issues \u2013 racism, social justice, education, equality.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-915 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>Emma: So your own research interests are changing in the light of these connections? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-917 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>After I leave the OU, I will be working on a series of essays about the contemporary world and climate, working tranche title <em>Eco Worrier<\/em>. And my current novel explores Victorian attitudes to nature and the way in which the ancient, shamanic understanding of the natural world had its last gasp at that time. It\u2019s a book that has led me down a lot of surprising, twisty pathways, like walking through an ancient forest. Or so I tell myself when my energies are flagging.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-915 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>Emma: Another area of your research relates to diverse voices in historical fiction. Could you tell us a bit more about that? Are there links between this and your interest in creativity and climate change? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-917 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>Sally: I\u2019m in the process of putting together a collection of essays about difference in historical fiction, and the way that previously marginalised voices are now being heard in this genre. Two years ago, I would have said this was separate from my interest in climate, but now I see a close connection. If you read about the British Empire and the ruthless way in which the British colonised and exploited people and resources, you can see how the foundations of climate injustice were laid. The Industrial Revolution paved the way for global expansion, which traditional British histories have said made the UK the \u2018workshop of the world\u2019, but we did this at the expense of disenfranchised groups in Britain \u2013 women, children, the working class \u2013 as well as in the global South. And the roots of Empire go back to Tudor England, to those glamorous swashbucklers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Francis-Drake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Drake<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Walter-Raleigh-English-explorer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Raleigh<\/a>, that period of history that now seems so brightly coloured and picturesque.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-915 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/EmmaClaireSweeneyheadshotcolour-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>Emma: Now that you are leaving your current post at the OU to write full time, how do you hope your new relationship with the OU might develop? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-917 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sally-oreilly-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019d like to find a new way of working, writing books that have academic rigour in collaboration with academics, perhaps in other disciplines, and also writing novels that reflect the new way that I see the modern world. One of the poets at the first seminar, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/poetry-and-theology-in-lockdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" >Kristian Evans<\/a>, talked about the way in which writing makes us more present to reality, and helps us experience life with more intensity, more directness. I\u2019d like to channel that, into reading, thinking and writing. And collaborating. Because as I was saying earlier, this has to be about collective action. Novelists are good at sitting on their own tapping out sole-authored books, and writing novels is still my priority, but I\u2019ll be looking for creative collaborations with OU colleagues whose interests relate to mine. I\u2019d like to follow Foster\u2019s example and work at the interface between fiction and nonfiction, a way of writing that seems particularly resonant at this time, when the facts are so extraordinary that processing them is an imaginative challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally O\u2019Reilly is a novelist and Senior Lecturer here at the Open University\u2019s Department of English and Creative Writing, where her role as Media Lead has included editing this blog. Before Sally\u2019s appointment as a Central Academic in 2014, she\u2019d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/climate-change-and-creativity-interview-with-sally-oreilly\/\" >Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,1],"tags":[115,112,98,107,108,116,103,101,117,109,102,111,118,100,99,120,119,106,114,104,113,110,105],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-research","tag-alan-garner","tag-charles-foster","tag-climate-change-and-creativity","tag-climate-crisis","tag-collective-action","tag-contemporary-cultures-of-writing","tag-dark-aemilia","tag-department-of-english-and-creative-writing","tag-eco-worrier","tag-faculty-of-arts-and-social-sciences","tag-how-to-be-a-writer","tag-jenny-offill","tag-kristian-evans","tag-open-university","tag-sally-oreilly","tag-sir-francis-drake","tag-sir-walter-raleigh","tag-societal-challenges","tag-ted-hughes","tag-the-best-possible-taste","tag-william-blake","tag-writing-the-climate","tag-you-spin-me-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}