{"id":9927,"date":"2019-02-22T09:21:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9927"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:21:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:21:05","slug":"nostalgia-podcast-with-professor-april-mcmahon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/02\/22\/nostalgia-podcast-with-professor-april-mcmahon\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia podcast with Professor April McMahon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7181436-april-mcmahon\">latest episode<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/audioboom.com\/channels\/4956567\">Nostalgia podcast series<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/deacy.html\">Dr Chris Deacy<\/a>, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/mcmahon.html\">Professor April McMahon<\/a>, Deputy Vice Chancellor for Education and Professor of English Language and Linguistics.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, April talks about being born in Edinburgh during a Beatles concert, how there weren&#8217;t many opportunities open to her as a child, being into the New Romantics, Altered Images and musicals, what inspired her to go to university, giving a lecture on the day that Margaret Thatcher resigned, how her Christian faith came along while she was in her 30s, listening to &#8216;Junior Choice&#8217; on Saturday mornings as a youngster, her mother&#8217;s sudden death, and why it is important to enjoy the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest episode of the Nostalgia podcast series, Dr Chris Deacy, Reader in Theology and Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, speaks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2019\/02\/22\/nostalgia-podcast-with-professor-april-mcmahon\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":9935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927"}],"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\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9940,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9927\/revisions\/9940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}