{"id":223,"date":"2008-10-06T09:55:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-10-06T09:55:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T17:55:14","slug":"kersplateral-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"KerSPLATeral Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s mission was four quickish (thirty to forty min-) sessions at the City of London School<\/strong><\/a>, which – if you happen to be a certain GIANT MONSTER<\/a> – is located at convenient stomping distance from lots of deliciously vulnerable London landmarks<\/a>, notably this:<\/p>\n

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Yep, it’s poor old St Paul’s!<\/p>\n

When I explained to the students that Tim<\/strong> basically involves the total and utter destruction of everything visible from their school’s windows…<\/p>\n

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…their reaction surprised me. A number were extremely keen to discover whether the school itself <\/em>was also trashed in the book. I just can’t imagine why, can you?? I mean, I thought the place looked rather nice! ;p<\/p>\n

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A thunderous thank you to Mr Rose and everyone else I met today for their wonderfully warm welcome. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’m off on my Isle of Wight tour! Three days of three talks a day to around 250 people in each session – it’s going to be AWESOME. However: internet access at the B&B where I’m staying is apparently dial-up only. I’ll do my best to keep in touch, but if I don’t manage it (and I survive the tour!) I’ll be back soon to tell you how it all went. Scrunch you later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s mission was four quickish (thirty to forty min-) sessions at the City of London School, which – if you happen to be a certain GIANT MONSTER – is located at convenient stomping distance from lots of deliciously vulnerable London landmarks, notably this: Yep, it’s poor old St Paul’s! When I explained to the students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}