{"id":2079,"date":"2009-08-16T08:56:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T07:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2009-08-16T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T07:56:43","slug":"what-i-should-be-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"What I should be doing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<p>is investigating<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayherald.com\/news\/heraldnews\/display.var.2525744.0.revealed_the_ancient_fish_that_could_stymie_resort_for_superrich.php\"> a story that Louise sent me<\/a> about the International Society of Arctic Char fanatics, and their struggles against some horrible development in Scotland. Better yet, I could be fishing for char (r&ouml;ding) because despite living for years in the southern reaches of countries where they are found I have only ever caught one in my whole life, and that was in Lake Bohinj, in Slovenia, where I didn&#8217;t know they existed until one grabbed my fly.<\/p>\n\n\t<p>Instead, though, the bits of the next two months that aren&#8217;t spent doing journalism will be taken up with reading. I am a judge this year for the Bernard Shaw prize for translation out of Swedish to English  , and they have just sent me the entries:<\/p>\n\n\t<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/reading-list.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/reading-list-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"12 i Swedish, 12 in English\" title=\"reading list\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2081\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/reading-list-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/reading-list-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/reading-list.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\t<p>Apologies for grotty cameraphone picture: never mind the quality, marvel at the height.<\/p>\n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t<p>is investigating a story that Louise sent me about the International Society of Arctic Char fanatics, and their struggles against some horrible development in Scotland. Better yet, I could be fishing for char (r&ouml;ding) because despite living for years in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=2079\">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":[5,7,18,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"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=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}