{"id":868,"date":"2020-06-24T16:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T16:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/british-studies-lecture-series\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=868"},"modified":"2020-06-24T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T16:51:21","slug":"geoffrey-wheatcroft","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/british-studies-lecture-series\/speaker\/geoffrey-wheatcroft\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Wheatcroft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Geoffrey Wheatcroft is an English journalist and author, a frequent contributor to the\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0<em>New York Review of Books\u00a0<\/em>as well as to newspapers and magazines in Britain. His books include\u00a0<em>The Randlords\u00a0<\/em>(1985),\u00a0<em>The Controversy of Zion\u00a0<\/em>(1996), and<em>Yo, Blair!\u00a0<\/em>(2007). He has been a regular visitor to the British Studies Seminar, talking more than once about Winston Churchill, a book on whose reputation and legacy he is finishing. Since being taken to a football game in Austin, he has considered himself a long-range Longhorn fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":872,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-868","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":null,"speaker_last_name":null,"speaker_classification":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/british-studies-lecture-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/british-studies-lecture-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/british-studies-lecture-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/british-studies-lecture-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/british-studies-lecture-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/868\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/british-studies-lecture-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/british-studies-lecture-series\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}