{"id":69622,"date":"2016-04-15T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4c7c48a7bf96317bb8a9ab1a84204db2"},"modified":"2016-04-15T10:22:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T10:22:00","slug":"news-story-amber-rudd-statement-on-the-death-of-sir-david-mackay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69622","title":{"rendered":"News story: Amber Rudd statement on the death of Sir David MacKay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>\u201cDavid was the model of a scientist in government; challenging, insightful and with the ability to explain the most complex subjects in a clear way.<\/p>\n<p>His legacy, including the 2050 calculator now emulated across the world and his brilliant book on sustainable energy, was deservedly recognised by a knighthood earlier this year. His ideas and arguments will continue to influence how we deal with climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sir David MacKay\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/51591\/David_Mackay.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Sir David MacKay, 1967-2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement from the Secretary of State on the death of DECC&#8217;s former Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir David MacKay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69652,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69622\/revisions\/69652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}