{"id":1237,"date":"2010-01-27T22:54:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T22:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2010-01-27T22:55:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T22:55:58","slug":"my-first-school-event-of-the-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"My First School Event of the Decade!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some quick pics from my first school event of 2010, namely six<\/em> talks with the awesomely enthusiastic pupils of Market Bosworth High School, Leicestershire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Here I am (above) getting into it. I’ll have you know I had to leave my eyeballs charging all night<\/strong> to get that maniacal gleam<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Here, below, is one of the new star of the show. The book’s not out ’til April – this is my only proof copy! – but by popular demand (a show of hands vote!) I read the opening scene of Crawlers <\/strong>at the end of session three.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a glimpse of post-talk signing frenzy<\/strong>. HEE HEE HEE!<\/p>\n

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…And this next pic gives you a pretty good idea of what a kick a terrific school visit like this tends to give me.<\/p>\n

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A massive THANK YOU <\/strong>to everyone I met and spoke to today. Roll on tomorrow! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some quick pics from my first school event of 2010, namely six talks with the awesomely enthusiastic pupils of Market Bosworth High School, Leicestershire. Here I am (above) getting into it. I’ll have you know I had to leave my eyeballs charging all night to get that maniacal gleam. Here, below, is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"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=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}