{"id":970,"date":"2008-05-08T12:35:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T12:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-01-16T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T12:38:56","slug":"real-england-paul-kingsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/05\/08\/real-england-paul-kingsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"REAL ENGLAND, PAUL KINGSWORTH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Aughey reviews<a href=\"http:\/\/www.word-power.co.uk\/books\/real-england-I9781846270413\/\"> Real England: The Battle Against the Bland<\/a> by Paul Kingsnorth over on Open Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The bulk of Paul Kingsnorth&#8217;s book is a cry for his beloved country, an England becoming ever more inauthentic (I suppose this is the correct term) because of the relentless pursuit of growth. As the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcglobalised, placeless world spreads&#8217; and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe spreading plastic of the consumer machine&#8217; grinds with homogenizing force, the people of England are being turned into \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccitizens of nowhere&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>His book tracks the struggles of those \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfighting the cause of the real England&#8217; &#8211; from the struggle to keep up the traditions of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcreal ale&#8217; in the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctraditional English pub&#8217; (and not in the<em> traditional <\/em>English pub, which like <em>traditional<\/em> fish and chips, can often mean a corporate simulacrum) to the fight to maintain the amazing variety of English apples against the drab uniformity of Fuji and Golden Delicious, neither of which are indigenous to the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole review <a title=\"Real England reviewed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/ourkingdom\/2008\/05\/07\/arthur-aughey-on-real-england\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Aughey reviews Real England: The Battle Against the Bland by Paul Kingsnorth over on Open Democracy. &#8220;The bulk of Paul Kingsnorth&#8217;s book is a cry for his beloved country, an England becoming ever more inauthentic (I suppose this is the correct term) because of the relentless pursuit of growth. As the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcglobalised, placeless world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}