{"id":1407,"date":"2020-09-11T15:14:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2020-09-11T15:14:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:14:30","slug":"history-lecturer-gives-talk-for-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/history-lecturer-gives-talk-for-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"History lecturer gives talk for museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1274\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2020\/06\/wills.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1274 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2020\/06\/wills-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2020\/06\/wills-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2020\/06\/wills-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/files\/2020\/06\/wills.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr John Wills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr John Wills, Reader in American History and Culture recently gave a presentation for The Micro Museum, as part of their virtual season of talks. The Museum, based in Ramsgate, is dedicated to the collection of computers and games.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Wills spoke on the 40th anniversary of the video game Pac-Man, and how it links to popular culture, especially food culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">You can watch Dr Wills&#8217; talk here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3osjtisSNCc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr John Wills, Reader in American History and Culture recently gave a presentation for The Micro Museum, as part of their virtual season of talks. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/09\/11\/history-lecturer-gives-talk-for-museum\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}