{"id":33,"date":"2008-02-11T23:26:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T22:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-02-12T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T10:45:30","slug":"bribes-aint-what-they-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Bribes ain&#8217;t what they used to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk\/ca\/digitalAssets\/114603_Complete_150th_Anniversary_Exhibition.pdf\">Cambridge Assessment<\/a> has garnered useful publicity for its 150th anniversary by putting together an exhibition of quaint gems from the archives. This featured on Radio 4&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/factual\/learningcurve.shtml\">Learning Curve<\/a>, including a letter from a Mr A Kershaw of Morecambe who, in 1910, offered the Secretary of the Syndicate, John Neville Keynes, (father of the economist) and his wife &#8216;a holiday in Paris&#8217; if his daughter&#8217;s fail grade could be found to have been &#8216;a mistake&#8217; (see page 24 of the online materials for the original). No such largesse in these mean-spirited times; the best I&#8217;ve had recently is the odd chuckle over &#8216;youthamisms&#8217; in Shakespeare, where Claudius, in an act of &#8216;fartricide&#8217;, seized the &#8216;thrown&#8217; from Old Hamlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>150 years of Cambridge examinations: no improvement in examiner remuneration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-examining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}