{"id":1523,"date":"1988-01-21T15:58:44","date_gmt":"1988-01-21T15:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2017-11-23T16:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T16:30:46","slug":"january-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/1988\/01\/21\/january-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"January 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>As students return from their Christmas Holidays to the new year of 1988,\u00a0an issue of Student greets them, reporting issues such as student financial problems and the protest of a conservative MP on campus. Read more below&#8230;<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/21070\/21_01_1988_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">21 January, 1988: Student Poverty and Conservative Disagreements <\/a><\/h2>\n<p>According to Student, many students are now over a term behind their housing benefit payments and provisions and are now facing severe financial problems.<\/p>\n<p>Conservation MP Ian Laing was hosted at Teviot Row House by the University of Edinburgh Conservative Club, however many students showed up to the MP&#8217;s speech to protest his support of policies such the poll-tax and the introduction of a loans-only scheme for all UK students.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk\/bitstream\/handle\/1842\/21070\/21_01_1988_OCR.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">Read the full issue here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As students return from their Christmas Holidays to the new year of 1988, an issue of Student greets them, reporting issues such as student financial problems and the protest of a conservative MP on campus. Read more here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[25,22,19],"tags":[65,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/files\/2017\/04\/21_01_1988_02.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p52Px1-oz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/thestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}