{"id":28091,"date":"2023-08-25T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/?p=28091"},"modified":"2023-08-25T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:05:48","slug":"five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as\u00a0legislation was passed<\/a>\u00a0limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you\u2019re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf out of the Victorians\u2019 book with these strangely fun leisure pursuits.<\/p>\n

\"Pages
Phrenology images from Vaught\u2019s Practical Character Reader (1902). Public Domain Review<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1. Read the bumps on your head<\/h2>\n

Put you hand above your right ear. Do you feel a bump? Then you are clearly selfish! Partly in response to the growth of new cities packed full of strangers, and partly out of a desire to better understand themselves, the Victorians embraced the idea that character could be read from one\u2019s outward appearance, especially one\u2019s skull shape.<\/p>\n

Phrenology<\/a>\u00a0was the pseudo-science of reading the bumps on a person\u2019s head to determine their character and potential. Its great populariser was\u00a0George Combe<\/a>, whose 1828 book\u00a0The Constitution of Man<\/a>\u00a0was a publishing sensation. Indeed, Combe\u2019s work was so influential that\u00a0Queen Victoria consulted him<\/a>\u00a0to try to understand why her son Bertie (later\u00a0Edward VII<\/a>) lacked the intelligence and practical application of his older sister\u00a0Victoria<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"A
A phrenology chart from 1883. People’s Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you want to undertake your own phrenological reading \u2013 or, better still, do one for a friend \u2013 all you will need are your fingers, a\u00a0phrenological chart<\/a>\u00a0or bust, and a willingness to interpret evidence imaginatively.<\/p>\n

If you are in a hurry, you can divide the skull into three. The organs of intelligence are clustered at the front, organs of morality on top, and the animal organs are clustered low down at the back.<\/p>\n

According to phrenology, a friend with an unusually high forehead is likely to be intelligent, while one with a particularly thick neck might be best avoided.<\/p>\n

2. Create a love token<\/h2>\n

Victorian love tokens came in many varieties. The most common were round, flat discs (often made from smoothed coins), sometimes engraved by hand with names or intertwined initials. You can see a collection of love tokens at the\u00a0Museum of London<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Love tokens didn\u2019t only celebrate romantic love. Prisoners sentenced to transportation to Australia often made love tokens for those they were forcibly separated from, and London\u2019s\u00a0The Foundling Museum<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 built on the site of the Foundling Hospital, which cared for abandoned babies \u2013 has a collection of tokens left by heartbroken mothers. These were often humble and tiny, from coins and simple buttons to half a hazelnut shell \u2013 but they were symbols of devotion and desperation.<\/p>\n

To make the simplest form of love token, you will need a coin, a hammer and a vice. Put the coin in the vice, leaving about one third on view, and hit it with the hammer. Once it has bent, flip the coin over, leaving the unbent third showing, and now hit that with the hammer. Done! You have a gift for your loved one to cherish.<\/p>\n

3. Kick someone\u2019s shins (gently)<\/h2>\n

If you enjoyed striking the coin or discovered a highly developed organ of combativeness during your phrenological examination, you might also want to try England\u2019s oldest martial art \u2013 shin-kicking.<\/p>\n

The roots of this strangely violent sport are believed to lie with Cornish miners in the 17th century, but in the 19th century it became popular in Lancashire mill towns, where it was known as\u00a0clog fighting<\/a>\u00a0or \u201cpurring\u201d.<\/p>\n

Participants would don shepherds\u2019 smocks, hold each other by the shoulders, and take turns to connect their foot with their opponent\u2019s shin. The contest is won when one competitor cries \u201csufficient\u201d, to indicate that they have had enough of being kicked. If you fancy trying this daring sport for yourself, soft shoes and padding stuffed into your trouser legs are recommended.<\/p>\n

4. Make a stereoscopic image<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s well known that the Victorians pioneered photography, but less so that they also invented 3D technology.\u00a0Stereoscopy<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a technique that creates the illusion of depth in a two-dimensional image \u2013 was discovered by inventor\u00a0Charles Wheatstone<\/a>\u00a0in 1832.<\/p>\n

Stereoscopic image cards of landscapes, buildings and portraits were fashionable throughout the 19th century, and you too can easily make your own stereoscopic images.<\/p>\n

\"Two
An early stereoscopic card for viewing a scene from nature from the 1870s. Wiki Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What Wheatstone realised is that our sense of depth is created by the distance between the pupils of our left and right eyes. Each sees a slightly different image, which our brain then aligns. To create this stereoscopic effect artificially, take two photographs of the same object from very slightly different positions, place them side by side, and then look at them cross-eyed.<\/p>\n

This cross-eyed viewing can be achieved with practice, but many middle-class Victorian homes had stereoscopic viewers, which worked in the same way as the\u00a0View-Master toy<\/a>\u00a0that was popular in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

5. Try gurning<\/h2>\n

Finally,\u00a0gurning<\/a>\u00a0is the practice of deliberately distorting your facial expression by projecting your lower jaw forward and up.<\/p>\n

In the tradition, which dates back to at least the\u00a013th-century<\/a>, gurners frame their face inside a horse collar. The current home of the Gurning World Championships,\u00a0Egremont Crab Fair in Cumbria<\/a>, has been running since 1267. It returns this year to much fanfare, after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

While anyone can try gurning, you might be ill-advised to do it when also presenting your love token.<\/p>\n

Jacqui Turner<\/a> is <\/span>Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of Reading. David Stack<\/a> is <\/span>Professor of History at the University of Reading.<\/p>\n

This article is republished from The Conversation<\/a> under a Creative Commons Licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as\u00a0legislation was passed\u00a0limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you\u2019re struggling to know how to…Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":28129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2277,2469,2467,2468,2470,2125,680,2466],"class_list":["post-28091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage-creativity","tag-feature","tag-hobbies","tag-leisure","tag-leisure-activities","tag-leisure-time","tag-nineteeth-century","tag-phrenology","tag-victorians"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFive bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy - Connecting Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you\u2019re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf out of the Victorians\u2019 book with these strangely fun leisure pursuits.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy - Connecting Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you\u2019re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf out of the Victorians\u2019 book with these strangely fun leisure pursuits.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Connecting Research\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theuniversityofreading\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/08\/uploads2F112Fvaughts_7.jpg2Ffit-in__1440x1440.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"852\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UniRdg_Research\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UniRdg_Research\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/\"},\"wordCount\":971,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"feature\",\"hobbies\",\"leisure\",\"leisure activities\",\"leisure time\",\"nineteeth century\",\"phrenology\",\"Victorians\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Heritage & Creativity\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/\",\"name\":\"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy - Connecting Research\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00\",\"description\":\"Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you\u2019re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf out of the Victorians\u2019 book with these strangely fun leisure pursuits.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/\",\"name\":\"Connecting Research\",\"description\":\"Research stories from across the University of Reading\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"University of Reading\",\"alternateName\":\"UoR\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2022\/10\/University-of-Reading-Logo-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2022\/10\/University-of-Reading-Logo-1.png\",\"width\":440,\"height\":147,\"caption\":\"University of Reading\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theuniversityofreading\/\",\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniRdg_Research\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/school\/university-of-reading\/mycompany\/verification\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsFUmxmcVbVJ-9iGczsKfuw\",\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Reading\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uniofreading\/?hl=en\",\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@uniofreading\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy - Connecting Research","description":"Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you\u2019re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf out of the Victorians\u2019 book with these strangely fun leisure pursuits.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy - Connecting Research","og_description":"Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you\u2019re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf out of the Victorians\u2019 book with these strangely fun leisure pursuits.","og_url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/","og_site_name":"Connecting Research","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theuniversityofreading\/","article_published_time":"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":852,"url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/08\/uploads2F112Fvaughts_7.jpg2Ffit-in__1440x1440.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@UniRdg_Research","twitter_site":"@UniRdg_Research","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Estimated reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy","datePublished":"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/"},"wordCount":971,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#organization"},"keywords":["feature","hobbies","leisure","leisure activities","leisure time","nineteeth century","phrenology","Victorians"],"articleSection":["Heritage & Creativity"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/","url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/","name":"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy - Connecting Research","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00","dateModified":"2023-08-25T11:05:48+00:00","description":"Leisure activities flourished in 19th-century Britain, as legislation was passed limiting the length of the working day and working week, giving people more free time. If you\u2019re struggling to know how to spend your own free time this summer, take a leaf out of the Victorians\u2019 book with these strangely fun leisure pursuits.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/2023\/08\/25\/five-bizarre-historic-leisure-activities-to-try-with-friends-from-gurning-to-stereoscopy\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Five bizarre historic leisure activities to try with friends \u2013 from gurning to stereoscopy"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/","name":"Connecting Research","description":"Research stories from across the University of Reading","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#organization","name":"University of Reading","alternateName":"UoR","url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2022\/10\/University-of-Reading-Logo-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2022\/10\/University-of-Reading-Logo-1.png","width":440,"height":147,"caption":"University of Reading"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theuniversityofreading\/","https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniRdg_Research","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/school\/university-of-reading\/mycompany\/verification\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsFUmxmcVbVJ-9iGczsKfuw","https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Reading","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uniofreading\/?hl=en","https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@uniofreading"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/author\/"}]}},"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28091"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28137,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28091\/revisions\/28137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}