{"id":1884,"date":"2008-10-28T22:26:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2008-10-28T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:26:29","slug":"apologies-for-absence-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"apologies for absence"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>I have been starting <a href=\"http:\/\/guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\">a site at the <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>, and just too busy to post here, or even to think. I have never in my life had anything like the quantity and virulence of hatemail that I&#8217;m getting there. I think the most egregious example was this, sent to me personally at my graun address.:<\/p>\n\n\t<p><blockquote>your book on Sweden and (allegedly) fly fishing.<\/p>\n\n\t<p>What a depressing piece of badly written rubbish! Were you not a journo, you would never have had it published. I&#8217;m pleased to say I read it <span class=\"caps\">AFTER<\/span> a delightful few weeks in that happy, cheerful country &#8211; it went in the bin of course, and I almost feel sorry for you in your clearly depressive state.<br \/>\nIain Wilson.<br \/>\n<\/blockquote><\/p>\n\n\t<p>This is not much compared to the hatred poured out on that site at Christians, or women. It&#8217;s not just upsetting, but really odd. Where does all this bile and self-righteousness come from? (in the quoted case, it comes from a vanity domain, icwilson.com) After a long day reading that kind of crap I feel as some people did after the 7\/7 bombings, as if complete strangers might explode beside me in the tube; except instead of semtex, they would just burst from the force of their own corrosive intestinal festerings. It&#8217;s probably related to the Ross\/ Brand kind of bullying, too.<\/p>\n\n\t<p>Ah well, tomorrow I am in Oxford for most of the day, and working on trains when I am not lecturing. But I will try to keep this site going. I like the comments here, for one thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>I have been starting a site at the Guardian, and just too busy to post here, or even to think. I have never in my life had anything like the quantity and virulence of hatemail that I&#8217;m getting there. I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1884\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884"}],"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=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}