{"id":2419,"date":"2010-01-25T10:23:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T10:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2010-01-25T10:23:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T10:23:06","slug":"green-pleasant-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/01\/25\/green-pleasant-land\/","title":{"rendered":"GREEN &#038; PLEASANT LAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a review of We English by <a title=\"Books by Gerry Badger available on Amazon.co.uk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_sq_top?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=gerry%20badger&amp;index=blended&amp;pf_rd_p=471057153&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1844003639&amp;pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&amp;pf_rd_r=16GTYNGFJE2DNR0KQHMS\" target=\"_blank\">Gerry Badger<\/a> in the current issue of <a title=\"AG Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.picture-box.com\/current.html\" target=\"_blank\">AG Magazine<\/a> (Issue 58\/Winter 2010).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AG-Winter-2010-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2423\" title=\"AG Winter 2010 02\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AG-Winter-2010-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AG-Winter-2010-02.jpg 650w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AG-Winter-2010-02-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the title &#8216;Green and Pleasant Land&#8217; Badger writes:\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We English is a complex body of work \u00e2\u20ac\u201c photographically simple in one sense, but imagistically complicated, with many different inferences, not all of them immediately appearance, so one can be grateful for the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s size, which enables one to see much of the detail in the pictures. Whether it can be considered as art or documentary, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the so-called painterly aspects of the work interest me the least. What does interest me is that Simon Roberts has produce an intelligent and persuasive vision of our contemporary English mores \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a Tony Ray-Jones for the 21st century.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AG-Winter-2010-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2420\" title=\"AG Winter 2010 03\" src=\"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AG-Winter-2010-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AG-Winter-2010-03.jpg 650w, https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AG-Winter-2010-03-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can read the full review by downloading the pdf <a title=\"AG Magazine Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.we-english.co.uk\/AG_Winter2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a review of We English by Gerry Badger in the current issue of AG Magazine (Issue 58\/Winter 2010). Under the title &#8216;Green and Pleasant Land&#8217; Badger writes:\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We English is a complex body of work \u00e2\u20ac\u201c photographically simple in one sense, but imagistically complicated, with many different inferences, not all of them immediately appearance, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}