{"id":1263,"date":"2021-04-23T10:56:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/letter-bill-broderick-obituary\/"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:56:48","slug":"letter-bill-broderick-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/letter-bill-broderick-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Bill Broderick obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a pupil of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jan\/26\/bill-broderick-obituary\">Bill Broderick<\/a>, at the Royal Liberty school, where I enjoyed his maths lessons. From somewhere, he acquired a stock of ancient mechanical calculators, so old that you had to manually turn wheels to set each individual number \u2013 but we loved them. And in a school where the rod was rarely spared, in Bill\u2019s class order was maintained by our affection for him, never fear.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/23\/letter-bill-broderick-obituary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bc86f4751ce127f6648d97fb8e4934f83d497adf\/0_481_1479_887\/master\/1479.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=58c4f64bb920a03c60d9be15c3ef8653\" title=\"Letter: Bill Broderick obituary\" \/>I was a pupil of Bill Broderick, at the Royal Liberty school, where I enjoyed his maths lessons. From somewhere, he acquired a stock of ancient mechanical calculators, so old that you had to manually turn wheels to set each individual number \u2013 but we loved them. And in a school where the rod was rarely spared, in Bill\u2019s class order was maintained by our affection for him, never fear. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a pupil of Bill Broderick, at the Royal Liberty school, where I enjoyed his maths lessons. From somewhere, he acquired a stock of ancient mechanical calculators, so old that you had to manually turn wheels to set each individual number \u2013 but we loved them. And in a school where the rod was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/23\/letter-bill-broderick-obituary\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letter: Bill Broderick obituary<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}