{"id":504,"date":"2003-01-06T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2003-01-06T22:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2003-01-06T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2003-01-06T22:12:15","slug":"vanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Vanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A narrow escape for Professor Dawkins, I think: I was just rung up by <span class=\"caps\">BBC<\/span> Four, a digital TV channel, and asked if I would be interested in presenting a programme about him, and interviewing him. The woman talking to me seemed smart and sympathetic; she had actually got hold of a copy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/0684851458\/andrewbrownssite\" title=\"The usual link to Amazon UK\"> Darwin Wars<\/a>, and read several chapters. The money was agreeable. I found I had a few ideas still on the subject. After about half an hour, she asked whether I still resembled the figure on the back jacket of the book. Well, I said, I&#8217;m 48 in a month, and I have less hair now than then. Whoops. The gig went up in smoke less savoury than the stuff rising in the background of that author picture.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A narrow escape for Professor Dawkins, I think: I was just rung up by <span class=\"caps\">BBC<\/span> Four, a digital TV channel, and asked if I would be interested in presenting a programme about him, and interviewing him. The woman talking to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=504\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=504\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504"}],"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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}