{"id":228,"date":"2008-10-14T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-10-14T11:01:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T19:01:30","slug":"i-invaded-the-isle-of-wight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"I Invaded The Isle of Wight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLOOF. Sorry for slight radio silence, but I&#8217;ve only just managed to recombobulate myself after last week&#8217;s incredible three-day tour of schools in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isle_of_Wight\">The Isle of Wight<\/a>: three days of speaking to my <strong>biggest crowds so far<\/strong>, a total of something like 1,600 thoroughly awesome young people!<\/p>\n<p>Here (yikes!) is a short film I&#8217;ve managed to put together in the hope that it&#8217;ll give you a flavour of what it was like. As ever, my film-making leaves something to be desired, but the music is the Main Title from Mars Attacks, by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny_Elfman\">Danny Elfman<\/a>, who is a genius! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pvN1wPuiAOw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pvN1wPuiAOw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An UNSPEAKABLY HUGE THANK YOU to <strong>Jenny<\/strong> for inviting me to the Island and for looking after me so attentively, to <strong>Diana<\/strong> at the Sea View B&amp;B in Ryde for putting me up in such comfort, and to the staff and students at <strong>Swanmore<\/strong>, <strong>Ryde High<\/strong>, <strong>Mayfield<\/strong>, <strong>Kitbridge<\/strong>, <strong>Osborne<\/strong>, <strong>Forelands<\/strong>, <strong>Lake<\/strong> and <strong>Sandham<\/strong> for the wonderful kindness and warmth of their welcome. My first visit to the Island as a published author was an absolute hoot (check out the book-themed fancy dress in the pics from <strong>Lake<\/strong>!!!) I look forward to coming back one day very soon. YAY! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLOOF. Sorry for slight radio silence, but I&#8217;ve only just managed to recombobulate myself after last week&#8217;s incredible three-day tour of schools in The Isle of Wight: three days of speaking to my biggest crowds so far, a total of something like 1,600 thoroughly awesome young people! Here (yikes!) is a short film I&#8217;ve managed [&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\/228"}],"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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}