{"id":228,"date":"2007-04-13T22:44:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T22:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/TargetAudienceFiveyearoldsInControlOfTheFamilysTravelBudget.aspx"},"modified":"2007-04-13T22:44:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T22:44:14","slug":"target-audience-five-year-olds-in-control-of-the-familys-travel-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/target-audience-five-year-olds-in-control-of-the-familys-travel-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Target audience: five-year-olds in control of the family&#8217;s travel budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clever folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.golakes.co.uk\/wordsworthrap\/\">the Cumbria board of tourism<\/a> have come up with a novel plan to get &#8220;the YouTube generation&#8221; connect with the Poetry of William Wordsworth.<\/p>\n<p>This year marks the 200th anniversary of Wordsworth&#8217;s poem &#8220;<em>I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud <\/em>&#8220;, a work apparently inspired by the beauty of the Cumbria Lake District.&nbsp; To honor the anniversary the board of tourism has graciously given the poem a dust-off.. &#8220;to help the next generation of Lake District visitors connect with his work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And just how do you help the next generation connect with Wordsworth poetry?&nbsp; Well, it&#8217;s plainly obvious, you turn it into a rap&#8230; performed by a guy in a squirrel suit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>You have to&nbsp;give them points for creativity&#8230; but marketing acumen? I&#8217;m&nbsp;not convinced your average Barney fan is really going to be making travel plans.<\/p>\n<p><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clever folks at the Cumbria board of tourism have come up with a novel plan to get &#8220;the YouTube generation&#8221; connect with the Poetry of William Wordsworth. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Wordsworth&#8217;s poem &#8220;I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud &#8220;, a work apparently inspired by the beauty of the Cumbria Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webweird"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}