{"id":65494,"date":"2018-11-03T01:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/03\/the-alf-garnett-of-architecture-roger-scruton-to-chair-buildings-commission\/"},"modified":"2018-11-03T01:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T00:01:44","slug":"the-alf-garnett-of-architecture-roger-scruton-to-chair-buildings-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=65494","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The Alf Garnett of architecture&#039;: Roger Scruton to chair buildings commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philosopher and writer chosen to help ensure attractiveness of new developments A philosopher who has criticised modern architecture and some of its leading exponents has been appointed to chair a commission that champions beautiful buildings.Roger Scruton, described by the Guardian\u2019s former architecture and design correspondent as \u201cthe Alf Garnett of architecture\u201d, has been charged with ensuring new developments are attractive and engage with, as well as reflect, local communities. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/nov\/03\/the-alf-garnett-of-architecture-roger-scruton-to-chair-buildings-commission\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;The Alf Garnett of architecture&#039;: Roger Scruton to chair buildings commission<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosopher and writer chosen to help ensure attractiveness of new developments A philosopher who has criticised modern architecture and some of its leading exponents has been appointed to chair a commission that champions beautiful buildings.Roger Scruton, described by the Guardian\u2019s former architecture and design correspondent as \u201cthe Alf Garnett of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}