{"id":1198,"date":"2004-05-21T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2004-05-21T15:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2004-05-21T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2004-05-21T15:02:12","slug":"apologies-for-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"apologies for stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted much this week because I have been getting up too early. Instead of shambling up between 5.30 and 6.00 am and absorbing coffee while I think out loud, I have been getting up at the same time, putting on some clothes in roughtly the right order, walking to the newsagents to buy all the daily papers but the <em>Star<\/em> and then speed-read the lot of them. This is to write the <em>Guardian&#8217;s<\/em> online daily summary of the British press, which has to be finished by 9am: I was filling in three days for Ros Taylor, who was on holiday. It&#8217;s not exactly demanding work, but the effect of speed-reading all of the newspapers, and whipping up a coherent summary, is to destroy the power of reflection after the deadline has hit. It&#8217;s incredibly difficult to get it back. I can&#8217;t stop thinking like a newspaper. My attention span narrows to about ten minutes, and nothing seems urgent unless there&#8217;s a deadline right <span class=\"caps\">NOW.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>It is also remarkable how quickly one stops noticing what utter crap most of the newspapers are, and how little they even pretend to supply news, rather than a sort of blurry timeless brightly-coloured sludge of stories about actresses, models and other people who don&#8217;t in any interesting sense, actually exist.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted much this week because I have been getting up too early. Instead of shambling up between 5.30 and 6.00 am and absorbing coffee while I think out loud, I have been getting up at the same time, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}