{"id":1102,"date":"2009-12-15T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2009-12-15T20:47:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:47:46","slug":"not-outfoxed-at-oxted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Not Outfoxed at Oxted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1021\">thought<\/a> I was all finished with school events for 2009 but today I got to do a bonus one, having been invited at shortish notice [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trappedbymonsters.com\"><strong>TBM<\/strong><\/a>] to talk to Year 8 students at <a href=\"http:\/\/extranet.oxted.surrey.sch.uk\/oxtedonline\/home\/\">Oxted School, Surrey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1103  aligncenter\" title=\"Oxted151209\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Oxted151209.JPG\" alt=\"Oxted151209\" width=\"640\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Oxted151209.JPG 640w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Oxted151209-300x99.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The group were a little quieter than I&#8217;ve been used to lately. In fact during my readings from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\"><strong>Black Tat<\/strong><\/a>, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\"><strong>Tim<\/strong><\/a>, and then (on its first school appearance looking like a proper book-!) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/\"><strong>Crawlers<\/strong><\/a>, the students were <strong>utterly pin-drop silent<\/strong>. Accustomed to having to work hard to get the attention of more boisterous groups, I was a bit disconcerted at first! But as the session went on hands started to go up and I was asked some fantastic questions. My thanks to everyone there for listening to me so carefully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d thought I was all finished with school events for 2009 but today I got to do a bonus one, having been invited at shortish notice [via TBM] to talk to Year 8 students at Oxted School, Surrey. The group were a little quieter than I&#8217;ve been used to lately. In fact during my readings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}