{"id":9228,"date":"2013-01-31T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=9228"},"modified":"2013-01-31T20:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T20:06:37","slug":"french-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=9228","title":{"rendered":"French letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"image-fixer-wrapper\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Recipe for Disaster<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ingredients:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 x Science<\/li>\n<li>2 or 3 x Maths<\/li>\n<li>2 x English<\/li>\n<li>2 x Humanities<\/li>\n<li>1 x language<\/li>\n<li>1 x sprinkling of Computing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Method:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take one <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Gove\" target=\"_blank\">meddling politician<\/a> who won't listen to reason<\/li>\n<li>Give that politician the authority to tinker and meddle with the ingredients<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that the politician gets everything really mixed up<\/li>\n<li>Half-bake the mix until it all goes tits-up<\/li>\n<li>Give the creation a fancy French name that many kids won't be able to spell anyway<\/li>\n<li>Feed it to many thousands of schoolkids<\/li>\n<li>Wash your hands of all responsibility<\/li>\n<li>Reassign the politician at the next Cabinet reshuffle<\/li>\n<li>Let the next Government clear up the mess<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Well done, you've just concocted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tes.co.uk\/article.aspx?storycode=6314575\" target=\"_blank\">EBC<\/a>, an inbred version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/schools\/teachingandlearning\/qualifications\/englishbac\/a0075975\/the-english-baccalaureate\" target=\"_blank\">EBacc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It doesn't look very good, does it? I imagine it'll taste bitter with a hint of merde.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Where's <a href=\"http:\/\/thepublandlord.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">the landlord<\/a> when you need him? He wouldn't stand for all that foreign-sounding rubbish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If he ever stood for election to Parliament, he'd get my vote\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"800\" height=\"600\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1CS1cUIxBVg?hl=en_GB&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recipe for Disaster &nbsp; Ingredients: 3 x Science 2 or 3 x Maths 2 x English 2 x Humanities 1 x language 1 x sprinkling of Computing &nbsp; Method: Take one meddling politician who won't listen to reason Give that politician the authority to tinker and meddle with the ingredients Ensure that the politician gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-lmao","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9228"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9240,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9228\/revisions\/9240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}