{"id":2088,"date":"2002-02-11T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2002-02-11T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2002-02-11T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2002-02-11T14:45:47","slug":"its-national-chip-week-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2002\/02\/11\/its-national-chip-week-and\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s National Chip Week, and"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.potato.org.uk\/include.asp?sec=76&amp;con=76\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"British Potato Council's official Chip Week homepage - Cath should enjoy this one. And who thought up that slogan?? &quot;Love Chips, Dig Potatoes&quot;\">National Chip Week<\/a>, and to coincide with that, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionaid.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ActionAid\">ActionAid<\/a> has launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/uk\/newsid_1809000\/1809581.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC news\">chip-patenting publicity stunt<\/a>. As usual, it isn&#8217;t as simple as this article suggests &#8211; if you had spent years and millions developing something, wouldn&#8217;t you want it protected in law, in just the same way as if you had written a novel, you&#8217;d be upset if another writer passed it off as their own work? But equally, how can we safeguard the interests of farmers and growers around the world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s National Chip Week, and to coincide with that, ActionAid has launched a chip-patenting publicity stunt. As usual, it isn&#8217;t as simple as this article suggests &#8211; if you had spent years and millions developing something, wouldn&#8217;t you want it protected in law, in just the same way as if you had written a novel, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}