{"id":1454,"date":"2003-09-18T13:37:43","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T17:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/18\/nut-protests-student-loans\/"},"modified":"2003-09-18T13:37:43","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T17:37:43","slug":"nut-protests-student-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/18\/nut-protests-student-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Nut Protests Student Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1151'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/nutt.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"450\" align=\"left\">Mark McGowan, a 37-year-old<br \/>\n        artist, arrives outside 10 Downing Street, in London Friday Sept. 12,<br \/>\n        2003. McGowan protesting against student debt, completed the bizarre<br \/>\n        stunt Friday of rolling a nut seven miles to Downing Street using only<br \/>\n        his nose. Crawling on his hands and knees, McGowan nudged the nut up<br \/>\n        the steps to the famous black door of Number 10. He began his journey<br \/>\n        at Goldsmiths College in south east London on September 1, and has covered<br \/>\n        around three-quarters of a mile per day, working in eight-hour bursts.<br \/>\n        McGowan handed the nut over to Number 10, along with a letter asking<br \/>\n      Prime Minister Tony Blair to accept it as payment for his student debt. <\/p>\n<p><em>I would gladly trade one of my nuts for a blanket amnesty for my own student<br \/>\n    debt. They could probably put it to better use than I<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.excite.com\/image\/20030912\/BRITAIN_NUT_PROTEST.sff_LON807_20030912093919.html\">from AP<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark McGowan, a 37-year-old artist, arrives outside 10 Downing Street, in London Friday Sept. 12, 2003. McGowan protesting against student debt, completed the bizarre stunt Friday of rolling a nut seven miles to Downing Street using only his nose. Crawling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/18\/nut-protests-student-loans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}