{"id":611,"date":"2009-06-12T10:37:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=611"},"modified":"2009-06-12T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:37:31","slug":"lunchtime-literary-lurkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Lunchtime Literary Lurkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick pic from today&#8217;s terrific visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodbridgehigh.co.uk\/page_viewer.asp?page=Home&amp;pid=1\"><strong>Woodbridge High School<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613 aligncenter\" title=\"woodbridge120609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/woodbridge120609.jpg\" alt=\"woodbridge120609\" width=\"640\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/woodbridge120609.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/woodbridge120609-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I gave two short talks in the morning &#8211; doing my best to answer some excellent questions &#8211; and then stuck around for something new on me, a <strong>Literary Lunch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Myself, fifteen young writers from various year groups and Woodbridge&#8217;s Supreme Ninja Librarian Ms Clarke, all sat around a table munching delicious baguettes and discussing some of the nuts and bolts of writing. I enjoyed it enormously. But it did mean, naturally, that I not only had to think of useful things to say, but I also then had to say them <strong>without spraying the group with partially chewed food<\/strong>. I \/think\/ I got away with one of these objectives at least, and I hope for the best with the other. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to Ms Clarke and to everyone I met and spoke to today for their wonderful warm welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a quick pic from today&#8217;s terrific visit to Woodbridge High School&#8230; I gave two short talks in the morning &#8211; doing my best to answer some excellent questions &#8211; and then stuck around for something new on me, a Literary Lunch. Myself, fifteen young writers from various year groups and Woodbridge&#8217;s Supreme Ninja Librarian [&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\/611"}],"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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}