{"id":491,"date":"2009-05-13T06:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=491"},"modified":"2009-05-13T06:26:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T14:26:11","slug":"leicester-loudly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Leicester, Loudly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I did my stuff at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moat.leicester.sch.uk\/default.aspx\"><strong>Moat Community College<\/strong><\/a>, Leicester. Over four sessions I spoke to pretty much everyone in Moat&#8217;s Year 9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-490\" title=\"moat120509pic1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moat120509pic1.jpg\" alt=\"moat120509pic1\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moat120509pic1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moat120509pic1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can maybe see from the pic above, the school&#8217;s lecture theatre, while very impressive, left me feeling a bit far away from the audience! But I did my best to fill the space&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-496\" title=\"moat120509arms\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moat120509arms.jpg\" alt=\"moat120509arms\" width=\"410\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moat120509arms.jpg 410w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moat120509arms-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;so I hope everyone got something out of listening to me. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The two sessions with smaller groups were particularly good. I understand I&#8217;m going to meet some of the students who were there for those at next month&#8217;s <strong>Leicester<\/strong> <strong>Teen Read Expo<\/strong> on <strong>June 24th<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve had a soft spot for Leicester ever since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=174\">last year&#8217;s awesome party<\/a> for <strong>The Leicester Book of the Year Award for Teenage Fiction<\/strong>, for which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\"><strong>Black Tat<\/strong><\/a> was shortlisted. Can&#8217;t wait to go back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I did my stuff at Moat Community College, Leicester. Over four sessions I spoke to pretty much everyone in Moat&#8217;s Year 9. As you can maybe see from the pic above, the school&#8217;s lecture theatre, while very impressive, left me feeling a bit far away from the audience! But I did my best to [&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\/491"}],"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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}