{"id":678,"date":"2009-07-03T10:09:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T18:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=678"},"modified":"2009-07-03T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T18:09:21","slug":"totally-terrific-tollgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Totally Terrific Tollgate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pics from today&#8217;s delightful visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tollgate.newham.sch.uk\/\"><strong>Tollgate Primary School<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-679 aligncenter\" title=\"tollgate030709pic1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic1.jpg\" alt=\"tollgate030709pic1\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic1.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic1-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I spoke to Tollgate&#8217;s Years 4, 5 and 6 &#8211; so this was the <strong>youngest audience I&#8217;ve met so far<\/strong>. But that seemed to make no difference whatsoever to the depth and sophistication of their questions, which flew thick and fast from the start. Hope my replies were as good! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a pic from the signing session afterwards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-680 aligncenter\" title=\"tollgate030709pic2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic2-300x253.jpg\" alt=\"tollgate030709pic2\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic2-300x253.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a pic that makes me very, very happy&#8230;! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-681 aligncenter\" title=\"tollgate030709pic3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic3.jpg\" alt=\"tollgate030709pic3\" width=\"480\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic3.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic3-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was enormously impressed by Tollgate. Its staff and students alike are wonderfully enthusiastic, and clearly deeply dedicated to their work together. A big thank you to John from the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhambooks.co.uk\/\"><strong>Newham Bookshop<\/strong><\/a> for supplying the books, but an <strong>especially massive <\/strong>thank you to anyone from Tollgate who happens to be reading this. You have a terrific school, and visiting was a pleasure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-682 aligncenter\" title=\"tollgate030709pic4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic4-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"tollgate030709pic4\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic4-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/tollgate030709pic4.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">PS: This is probably going to be my last blog post before the end of <strong>Phase Three, Draft Three<\/strong>. See you on the other side! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some pics from today&#8217;s delightful visit to Tollgate Primary School. I spoke to Tollgate&#8217;s Years 4, 5 and 6 &#8211; so this was the youngest audience I&#8217;ve met so far. But that seemed to make no difference whatsoever to the depth and sophistication of their questions, which flew thick and fast from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}