{"id":14097,"date":"2015-05-20T21:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14097"},"modified":"2015-05-20T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:56:16","slug":"mostly-brookes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14097","title":{"rendered":"Mostly Brookes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15052001.jpg\" alt=\"Mostly Brookes\" \/><br \/>\nAt the Mostly Books Bookshop in Stert Street Abingdon this evening there was a sell out book event,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15052002.jpg\" alt=\"Mostly Brookes\" \/><br \/>\nLocal author Bryan Brown has written a book about &nbsp;John Henry Brookes &#8211; the man who developed the art and technology college in Oxford, that became Oxford Polytechnic in 1970, and Brookes University in 1992.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15052003.jpg\" alt=\"Mostly Brookes\" \/><br \/>\nMark, from Mostly Books, invited Bryan to talk about John Henry Brookes, and sign some books. <\/p>\n<p>Brookes was an artist, as well as enthusiastic educator. During World War I, he became a conscientious objector. His interesting life influenced so many people.<\/p>\n<p>Without Brookes I would not have met my wife. She went to Oxford Polytechnic to study history of art, and we met.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Mostly Books Bookshop in Stert Street Abingdon this evening there was a sell out book event, Local author Bryan Brown has written a book about &nbsp;John Henry Brookes &#8211; the man who developed the art and technology college in Oxford, that became Oxford Polytechnic in 1970, and Brookes University in 1992. Mark, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}