{"id":196,"date":"2014-11-15T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=196"},"modified":"2014-11-15T12:47:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T12:47:06","slug":"can-stoke-on-trent-make-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/11\/15\/can-stoke-on-trent-make-you-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Stoke-on-Trent make you happy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Rice gave a very entertaining public lecture entitled &#8216;Can Stoke-on-Trent make you happy?&#8217; on Tuesday 11th, part of the University&#8217;s Centenary series.\u00a0 Matthew pointed to some other European cities which have pulled themselves out of the post-industrial doldrums, discussed Stoke&#8217;s industrial and domestic architectural heritage in terms of its emotional significance for the local population, and suggested that artists could act as the &#8220;stormtroopers of regeneration&#8221;!\u00a0 The next lecture in this series is by TV historian Professor Michael Wood and is entitled &#8216;Does History Matter?&#8217;\u00a0 For further details go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staffs.ac.uk\/news\/heritageinspired-public-lectures-designed-to-get-you-thinking-tcm4280835.jsp\">http:\/\/www.staffs.ac.uk\/news\/heritageinspired-public-lectures-designed-to-get-you-thinking-tcm4280835.jsp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Rice gave a very entertaining public lecture entitled &#8216;Can Stoke-on-Trent make you happy?&#8217; on Tuesday 11th, part of the University&#8217;s Centenary series.\u00a0 Matthew pointed to some other European cities which have pulled themselves out of the post-industrial doldrums, discussed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2014\/11\/15\/can-stoke-on-trent-make-you-happy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}