{"id":1975,"date":"2007-06-19T20:03:23","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T20:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/06\/the_progressive\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T20:03:23","slug":"the_progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/the_progressive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Progressive Patriot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0552772429&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Progressive Patriot is one of those books that&#8217;s going to defy categorisation in bookshops and libraries. It&#8217;s part autobiography, part history and part social history.<br \/>\nBragg takes us on something of a personal journey to understand his roots. We travel this journey, partly by way of his East End\/Essex born family, but dip in and out of the history of Britain, and England in particular.<br \/>\nWe also learn something of Bragg&#8217;s musical heritage, from his early love of Simon and Garfunkel to his discovering of punk, properly in the guise of The Clash.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a good book, and I didn&#8217;t read it because I&#8217;m particularly a fan of Bragg. I guess I admire his work more than love it. But he&#8217;s an excellent story teller, and I always listen out for radio or television interviews.<br \/>\nI do have some issues with his slightly too accommodating views on ID Cards towards the end &#8211; but then you&#8217;d be surprised if I didn&#8217;t. And sometimes, he still has to hammer home his politics a little more than is necessary, especially when it sometimes feels that today&#8217;s Tories are actually to the left of some Labour policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive Patriot is one of those books that&#8217;s going to defy categorisation in bookshops and libraries. It&#8217;s part autobiography, part history and part social history. Bragg takes us on something of a personal journey to understand his roots. We travel this journey, partly by way of his East End\/Essex born family, but dip in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}