{"id":60,"date":"2008-03-03T12:49:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T20:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=60"},"modified":"2008-03-03T12:49:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T20:49:36","slug":"sorted-in-swindon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Sorted in Swindon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Well folks, here we are at the end of day one of my Wiltshire Whirlwind Tour. I&#8217;m staying the night at Marlborough College, I&#8217;ve just consumed a vast pizza covered in chilli and pepperoni and all is right with the world, for a I have just had a terrific day&#8217;s visit to Swindon Academy!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/swindonpic1.jpg\" alt=\"Swindon 030308 one way\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And what a great way to start this monster week of events: I was HUGELY impressed with this school &#8211; not &#8216;just&#8217; with its atmosphere of commitment and enthusiasm, but also\u00c2\u00a0(hurrah!) with the impeccably high quality of attention (and questions!) I received\u00c2\u00a0from its students throughout the day. Doing FOUR sessions &#8211; plus a quick informal chat in the library at the end &#8211; has left me with\u00c2\u00a0a delightfully frazzled sensation\u00c2\u00a0and the knowledge of a day\u00c2\u00a0well seized (hee hee hee!) My thanks to Ms Ellis and the other staff for their warm welcome. And thanks, too, of course, to Swindon Academy&#8217;s students: you were a pleasure to speak to!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/swindon2.JPG\" alt=\"Swindon 030308 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and the other side!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d write more, but I might fall asleep on the keyboard, and\u00c2\u00a0whenever that happens (see THE ENTHOVEN IS DEAD, right) it&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0almost impossible\u00c2\u00a0to get the\u00c2\u00a0pink stains out of the keys. \u00c2\u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Instead I&#8217;ll just say that if the rest of the week carries on like today, it&#8217;s going to be AWESOME.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well folks, here we are at the end of day one of my Wiltshire Whirlwind Tour. I&#8217;m staying the night at Marlborough College, I&#8217;ve just consumed a vast pizza covered in chilli and pepperoni and all is right with the world, for a I have just had a terrific day&#8217;s visit to Swindon Academy! And [&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\/60"}],"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=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}