{"id":497,"date":"2009-06-16T10:51:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T09:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2009-06-16T10:51:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T09:51:33","slug":"bellamy-launches-scotlands-first-school-angling-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/06\/16\/bellamy-launches-scotlands-first-school-angling-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellamy launches Scotland&#8217;s first school angling course"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"David Bellamy\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/cb\/David_Bellamy_Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. David Bellamy\" width=\"147\" height=\"134\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. David Bellamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NATURALIST Professor David Bellamy yesterday launched the first exams for game angling at a Scottish secondary school to a volley of criticism from animal rights supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bellamy said the move to introduce Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) from S3 onwards helps establish Scotland as &#8220;the open university for field sports&#8221;, and also educates children how to interact with the environment (<em><a title=\"Herald story, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theherald.co.uk\/news\/news\/display.var.2514552.0.Bellamy_hopes_new_angling_exams_will_hook_youngsters.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Herald<\/a>,<\/em> Glasgow).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Opinion, opens in new window\" href=\"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/16\/opinion-young-blood-vital-for-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion: Young blood vital for the future<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATURALIST Professor David Bellamy yesterday launched the first exams for game angling at a Scottish secondary school to a volley of criticism from animal rights supporters. Professor Bellamy said the move to introduce Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) from S3 onwards helps establish Scotland as &#8220;the open university for field sports&#8221;, and also educates children how&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}