{"id":561,"date":"2015-10-08T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T02:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=561"},"modified":"2015-10-08T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T02:56:19","slug":"the-oxford-union-formal-thursday-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"the Oxford Union &#8211; Formal Thursday Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxford-union.org\/debates\/formal_debates\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/debating_sponsorship.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Twelve\u00a0British\u00a0Prime Ministers have cut their teeth and honed\u00a0their skills\u00a0in our Debating\u00a0Chamber, five of whom\u00a0were also\u00a0officers of the Society: our first was William Ewert Gladstone, and our most recent Tony Blair. David Cameron, Leader of the Opposition,\u00a0is also a member, most recently\u00a0addressing the\u00a0Society\u00a0in Trinity Term (Summer)\u00a02008. We frequently play\u00a0host to\u00a0in excess of twelve Heads of State\u00a0per year, not to mention countless actors, writers, film stars, musicians, celebrities and politicians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxford-union.org\/debates\/formal_debates\">the Oxford Union &#8211; Formal Thursday Debates<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve\u00a0British\u00a0Prime Ministers have cut their teeth and honed\u00a0their skills\u00a0in our Debating\u00a0Chamber, five of whom\u00a0were also\u00a0officers of the Society: our first was William Ewert Gladstone, and our most recent Tony Blair. David Cameron, Leader of the Opposition,\u00a0is also a member, most recently\u00a0addressing the\u00a0Society\u00a0in Trinity Term (Summer)\u00a02008. We frequently play\u00a0host to\u00a0in excess of twelve Heads of State\u00a0per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}