{"id":194,"date":"2010-12-01T12:42:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T12:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=194"},"modified":"2010-12-01T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T12:42:14","slug":"starring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Starring&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At my visit to <strong>Bushey Meads School <\/strong>yesterday not just one but <em>two<\/em> of the young people I spoke to asked to have their first names used in my<strong> next book<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195  aligncenter\" title=\"BusheyMeads30thNov2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BusheyMeads30thNov2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BusheyMeads30thNov2010.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BusheyMeads30thNov2010-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I did my best to warn them that their names might go to characters who, say, <strong>eat children<\/strong> but, strangely, that didn&#8217;t seem to put them off. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I was asked all sorts of other excellent questions throughout the day, for which I had to scramble hard to find what I hope were decent answers. Here I am being interviewed by student librarians for the school magazine and (by the look of it) preparing to shoot bolts of plasma from my fingertips:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196  aligncenter\" title=\"BusheyMeads30thNov2010Interview\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BusheyMeads30thNov2010Interview.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BusheyMeads30thNov2010Interview.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/BusheyMeads30thNov2010Interview-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was my last school visit of 2010, and a great one to finish off on. An enormous THANK YOU to everyone involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At my visit to Bushey Meads School yesterday not just one but two of the young people I spoke to asked to have their first names used in my next book. I did my best to warn them that their names might go to characters who, say, eat children but, strangely, that didn&#8217;t seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}