{"id":269,"date":"2011-06-08T21:39:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T20:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-06-08T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T21:05:08","slug":"wrath-of-the-mega-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Wrath of the Mega-Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big thank you to everyone I met and spoke to today at <strong>Chilwell School <\/strong>in <strong>Beeston, Nottinghamshire<\/strong> for their warm welcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-270  aligncenter\" title=\"Chilwell080611\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Chilwell080611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Chilwell080611.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Chilwell080611-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The audiences for my two talks were my biggest in a while, and they were absolutely brilliant &#8212; enthusiastic, astonishingly pin-drop silent for the readings and full of <strong>awesome questions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At lunchtime in the library I had a thoroughly disturbing conversation about <strong>squirrels<\/strong>. For a taste of my feelings as regards that particular topic I refer you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblacktattoo.com\/thenewdeal.html\"><strong>this horrible short story<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big thank you to everyone I met and spoke to today at Chilwell School in Beeston, Nottinghamshire for their warm welcome. The audiences for my two talks were my biggest in a while, and they were absolutely brilliant &#8212; enthusiastic, astonishingly pin-drop silent for the readings and full of awesome questions. At lunchtime in [&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\/269"}],"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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theycrawl.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}