{"id":136,"date":"2008-05-13T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T20:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-05-13T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T20:50:31","slug":"arm-waving-at-ega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Arm-waving at EGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon it was my great privilege to go do my stuff at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egaschool.co.uk\/index.php\">Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school for girls<\/a>. It&#8217;s actually the third time I&#8217;ve been invited there; it was a pleasure as always&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and, also <em>as always<\/em> at my events, I waved my arms about like a big, black-clad, blond baboon. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start with a wide shot of me reading from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\">Black Tat<\/a> &#8211; and looking pretty composed and dignified, right?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ega130508wideshot1.jpg\" alt=\"Dignified\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Maybe so. But the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=53\">old habits<\/a> soon set in, and before long&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ega130508armwaving1.jpg\" alt=\"WavingOne\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ega130508armwaving2.jpg\" alt=\"WavingTwo\" \/><\/p>\n<p> And even&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ega130508cabertoss.jpg\" alt=\"CaberToss\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above, unless I&#8217;m very much mistaken, is me acting out the scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\">Tim<\/a> in which <strong>the<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Ben\">Big Ben Tower<\/a> is snapped off and tossed like a caber<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I like to put a lot of enthusiasm into my talks! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to the students I spoke to &#8211; your questions were excellent! &#8211; and to Ms Cheetham for having me back for what was yet another terrific visit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/ega130508hugecheesygrin.jpg\" alt=\"Cheesy Grin!\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This afternoon it was my great privilege to go do my stuff at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school for girls. It&#8217;s actually the third time I&#8217;ve been invited there; it was a pleasure as always&#8230; &#8230;and, also as always at my events, I waved my arms about like a big, black-clad, blond baboon. \ud83d\ude09 Let&#8217;s start [&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\/136"}],"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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}