{"id":1144,"date":"2010-06-30T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2010-05-17T16:15:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:15:48","slug":"30th-june-1860-150-years-today-historic-debate-evolution-held-oxford-university-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/30th-june-1860-150-years-today-historic-debate-evolution-held-oxford-university-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"30th June 1860 (150 years ago today) The historic debate about evolution is held at the Oxford University Museum."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to score a point against Darwin&#8217;s disciples, the Bishop of Oxford unwisely baited Thomas Henry Huxley by enquiring whether he would prefer to think of himself descended from an ape on his grandfather&#8217;s or grandmother&#8217;s side. According to legend he quickly had his comeuppance. Huxley whispered to a neighbour: &#8220;The Lord hath delivered him into mine hands&#8221;&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk\/cis\/brooke\/lecture1.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to score a point against Darwin&#8217;s disciples, the Bishop of Oxford unwisely baited Thomas Henry Huxley by enquiring whether he would prefer to think of himself descended from an ape on his grandfather&#8217;s or grandmother&#8217;s side. According to legend he quickly had his comeuppance. Huxley whispered to a neighbour: &#8220;The Lord hath delivered him&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/30th-june-1860-150-years-today-historic-debate-evolution-held-oxford-university-museum\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-is","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}