{"id":13313,"date":"2020-09-08T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2020-09-08T20:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T19:36:50","slug":"listened-should-universities-give-preference-to-applicants-from-poor-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/listened-should-universities-give-preference-to-applicants-from-poor-backgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"listened: Should universities give preference to applicants from poor backgrounds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading the  great article in the Observer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/sep\/06\/michael-sandel-the-populist-backlash-has-been-a-revolt-against-the-tyranny-of-merit\">Michael Sandel: &#8216;The populist backlash has been a revolt against the tyranny of merit&#8217;<\/a> I subscribed to the podcast.<br \/>\nThe best thing about the podcast is how Michael Sandel, summarises and pushed the arguments on without any delay.<br \/>\nI am enjoying listing to podcasts again now I am commuting once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eminent Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel brings his trademark style to a discussion on a current issue, questioning the thinking underlying a current controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"mf2_syndication":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnjohnston\/status\/1303416959485317120"],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[660],"tags":[28],"post_format":[642],"class_list":{"0":"post-13313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-micro","7":"tag-podcast","8":"post_format-post-format-status","9":"kind-listen","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"post-kind"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-3sJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13315,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions\/13315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=13313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}