{"id":1618,"date":"2008-06-05T20:42:14","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T19:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2008-09-08T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T12:38:10","slug":"guilty-and-shameless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Guilty and shameless"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n\t<li>I haven&#8217;t posted anything for a couple of days. So I&#8217;m guilty; mostly because I have been on trains or racketing around in London when not writing two rather difficult pieces, but also because Santa came on Tuesday with a box containing a dozen hardback copies of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Fishing-Utopia-Sweden-Future-Disappeared\/dp\/1862079951\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1212694230&amp;sr=8-1\">the Swedish book<\/a>. They look beautiful, and they read all right. I asked the <span class=\"caps\">FWB <\/span>for her opinion, and she said &#8220;In this draft, there were six typos.&#8221; But I&#8217;m still feeling shamelessly happy. <\/li>\n\t<li>Sitting in a bar with Louise on Thursday evening and talking about our Viking slavery talk<sup class=\"footnote\"><a href=\"#fn1\">1<\/a><\/sup> I needed to come up with a reason why we were not demonstrating for human rights outside the Chinese embassy, as my wife and daughter were. &#8220;Radio Three&#8221;, I said, &#8220;will get you through times of no human rights better than human rights will get you through times of no Radio Three.&#8221;<\/li>\n\t<li>I spent most of today writing a review of Nicholas Lash&#8217;s new book for the <em>New Statesman.<\/em> It is quite impossible to imagine that paper wanting a review of a collection of intermittently very dense theological essays ten years ago. People interested in what belief in God actually means could do a lot better than to start there. <\/li>\n\t<li>If, on the other hand, you want to know what a belief in Christianity looks like, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/ukcorrespondents\/faithbook\/june08\/birminghamevangelists.htm#comments\">the comments section <\/a>of George Pitcher&#8217;s blog on the <em>Telegraph<\/em>. Note that he actually discovered one of the missing bits of the story: what it was that two American fundies were handing out in a Muslim area of Birmingham that got the (Muslim) policeman to tell them to go away or they would get thumped: yes; it was a Chick-like tract which claims that all non-evangelicals will go to hell. <\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn1\"><sup>1<\/sup> This is an interval talk for one of the proms, which will explain how it was that every respectable Ukrainian family in the eleventh century could keep a British au pair girl. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t posted anything for a couple of days. So I&#8217;m guilty; mostly because I have been on trains or racketing around in London when not writing two rather difficult pieces, but also because Santa came on Tuesday with a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1618\">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\/1618"}],"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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}