{"id":182,"date":"2010-11-09T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-11-09T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:01:51","slug":"to-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"To The Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timdefenderoftheearth.com\/news\/?p=242\"><strong>returned<\/strong><\/a> to <strong>Nova Hreod<\/strong> <strong>College<\/strong> to give three talks as part of the always-awesome <strong>Swindon Ten Youth Festival of Literature<\/strong>. I spoke to over <strong>five hundred students<\/strong> including Nova&#8217;s whole Year  8, the whole Year 7, and a biggish group of Year 10s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-183  aligncenter\" title=\"NovaHreod091110pic1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NovaHreod091110pic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NovaHreod091110pic1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NovaHreod091110pic1-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Everyone was  wonderfully attentive, particularly during my <strong>readings<\/strong> for which they were <strong>pin drop silent<\/strong>. I responded (as followers of this blog and my events will no doubt already suspect) by <strong>gesticulating like a man whose armpits are on fire<\/strong>. Here I am doing what appears to be some kind of <strong>pointy dance<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-184  aligncenter\" title=\"NovaHreod091110pointydance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NovaHreod091110pointydance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NovaHreod091110pointydance.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NovaHreod091110pointydance-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My thanks and best wishes to this fantastic festival&#8217;s supremely hard-working organisers, and to everyone I met and spoke to. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I returned to Nova Hreod College to give three talks as part of the always-awesome Swindon Ten Youth Festival of Literature. I spoke to over five hundred students including Nova&#8217;s whole Year 8, the whole Year 7, and a biggish group of Year 10s. Everyone was wonderfully attentive, particularly during my readings for which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}