{"id":12152,"date":"2020-03-09T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=12152"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:43:41","slug":"nostalgia-heidi-colthup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/03\/09\/nostalgia-heidi-colthup\/","title":{"rendered":"Freelance journalism, tractor driving and video games; Nostalgia podcast with Heidi Colthup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heidi Colthup, Deputy Head of English Language and Linguistics, was the first female opinion columnist for &#8216;Farmers Weekly&#8217; magazine.<\/p>\n<p>In this gripping interview, the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7524225-heidi-colthup.\">latest in the Nostalgia podcast series<\/a>, Heidi talks to Dr Chris Deacy about working as a freelance journalist; training as a primary school teacher; combining driving tractors with fine art; why through reading one gets to lead a thousand lives; trashy novels and <em>Fifty Shades of Grey;<\/em> her Scottish ancestry; the time when the only copy of her grandfather&#8217;s memoirs were cremated with him; why we write diaries and who we write them for; video games; being a huge Stephen King fan; teaching in the Department of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Kent; aspiring to be Prime Minister; wanting to make a difference; and why Heidi doesn&#8217;t believe in either looking back or looking forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heidi Colthup, Deputy Head of English Language and Linguistics, was the first female opinion columnist for &#8216;Farmers Weekly&#8217; magazine. In this gripping interview, the latest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2020\/03\/09\/nostalgia-heidi-colthup\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34790,"featured_media":12153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[237575,124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13392,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions\/13392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}