{"id":259836,"date":"2008-01-28T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/01\/28\/ace-funding-update-a-k-a-my-recent-obsession\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:34:37","slug":"ace-funding-update-a-k-a-my-recent-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/01\/28\/ace-funding-update-a-k-a-my-recent-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"ACE Funding Update (a.k.a. My Recent Obsession)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, there&#8217;s some good news for the organizations at risk of losing their Arts Council England funding. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/politics\/article3257291.ece\">this article<\/a>,  the Arts Council is reconsidering its funding cuts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Arts Council has been forced into a partial climbdown to reprieve about 25 of the theatres, orchestras and dance groups whose grants it had threatened to scrap. [. . .]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two specialist publishers that translate foreign works into English, Dedalus and Arcadia, are also likely to be spared . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The absolute best part of this is the reason why Sir Christopher Frayling reconsidered&#8212;\u201cIt is not the decibel count which has influenced us, but reasoned argument.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So not only did complaining about how organizations were treated actually work, but someone affiliated with a government admitted to being swayed by &#8220;reasoned argument&#8221;! You Brits are so funny and polite . . . <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Frayling now accepts it was a mistake of the council not to publish a list of the 194 organisations whose grants were to be removed. It was left to them to go public or contact media outlets.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t he know that admitting a mistake is a sign of weakness. . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, there&#8217;s some good news for the organizations at risk of losing their Arts Council England funding. According to this article, the Arts Council is reconsidering its funding cuts: The Arts Council has been forced into a partial climbdown to reprieve about 25 of the theatres, orchestras and dance groups whose grants it had threatened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[9276,1836],"class_list":["post-259836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-arts-council-england","tag-cwp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359696,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259836\/revisions\/359696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}