{"id":461,"date":"2002-11-16T14:51:50","date_gmt":"2002-11-16T18:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=461"},"modified":"2002-11-16T14:51:50","modified_gmt":"2002-11-16T18:51:50","slug":"hanging-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"hanging on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was drinking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571191320\/ref=sr_aps_books_1_2\/026-7226180-3406009\" title=\"The child that books built\">Francis<\/a> in the Pillars of Hercules, as an act of piety to all the underpaid writers who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.julianbarnes.com\/fb\/008.html\" title=\"The office of a literary magazine\">drank there<\/a> long before us. He&#8217;s writing a book about technology, and I had just come from wrapping <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/analysis\/2477981.stm\" title=\"A gurgling plughole\">my radio programme<\/a> about the Church of England. It had brought back a suppressed memory of the time I decided I would never write another religious news story: I had typed on my laptop in some railway waiting room &#8212; there was no time to get to London &#8212; the words &#8220;the Church of England&#8221; and promptly fell asleep for some minutes. &#8220;Ah, yes&#8221;, he said, &#8220;in the mobile phone chapter I walk a slack rope of interest across the bottomless pit of boredom; sometimes I fall off.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was drinking with Francis in the Pillars of Hercules, as an act of piety to all the underpaid writers who drank there long before us. He&#8217;s writing a book about technology, and I had just come from wrapping my &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=461\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=461\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}