{"id":165,"date":"2008-06-20T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T17:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-06-20T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T17:15:29","slug":"talking-fast-blogging-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Talking fast, blogging faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey!<\/p>\n

Writing this at what’s (for me at least) fairly tremendous speed as I’m about to shoot off out the door again, but I’ve just returned from a TERRIFIC school visit, this time to St Augustine’s<\/a>, in Kilburn, London.<\/p>\n

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I was booked for two sessions, and spoke to around sixty Year 7 students in each. I also had the chance to chat to some fascinating Sixth Form students at lunchtime. I was enormously impressed throughout my time at this school. Despite it being quite a muggy and hot sort of a day everyone’s attention was impeccable, and the questions were just AWESOME! The standout one – and one of the weirdest for a while! – was “If Philip Pullman<\/a> asked you for your autograph, what would you do?<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

I don’t know. Probably giggle uncontrollably, like the total fanboy I am, and then sign whatever he liked of course. But (heh!) if it ever actually happens, I’ll be sure to let you know! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

My thanks to Ms Collins, and everyone I met at St Aug’s. I’m hoping to get the chance to come back for another visit later in the year. Looking forward to it already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey! Writing this at what’s (for me at least) fairly tremendous speed as I’m about to shoot off out the door again, but I’ve just returned from a TERRIFIC school visit, this time to St Augustine’s, in Kilburn, London. I was booked for two sessions, and spoke to around sixty Year 7 students in each. […]<\/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\/165"}],"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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}