{"id":1339,"date":"2005-11-21T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2005-11-21T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T15:13:10","slug":"david-austin-1935-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"David Austin 1935-2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny people aren&rsquo;t always nice, and they don&rsquo;t often feel the need, in person, to make you feel the world is a better place than you&#8217;d supposed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/news\/story\/0,,1647144,00.html\">David Austin<\/a> did that.<\/p>\n\nI don&rsquo;t know whether his cartoons or his company were more cheering and he was also enormously funny. I never saw him regularly after I stopped drinking with the <em>Spectator<\/em> crowd, though sometimes we would bump into each other at the <em>Guardian.<\/em> This is one of his pictures, bought at a show in 1994. I asked him if I could use it as my Christmas card that year. I wish I&rsquo;d never had to use it for this.  <br \/><br \/>\n<div align=center\u201d>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Flying bishop in his flying palace, on the M25.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/helmintholog\/archives\/images\/austin.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny people aren&rsquo;t always nice, and they don&rsquo;t often feel the need, in person, to make you feel the world is a better place than you&#8217;d supposed. David Austin did that. I don&rsquo;t know whether his cartoons or his company &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1339\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1339\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"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=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}