{"id":585,"date":"2003-03-24T11:02:05","date_gmt":"2003-03-24T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=585"},"modified":"2003-03-24T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2003-03-24T15:02:05","slug":"good-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=585","title":{"rendered":"good press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I thought the worm book was over in this country, along comes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2102-615692,00.html\">delicious review<\/a> in the <em>Sunday Times<\/em>. And I caught three trout over the weekend, but that is a subject for a later entry. First to finsih an obituary which is a year overdue. I&#8217;m very happy about that. It&#8217;s someone I like and esteem. I don&#8217;t want her to die. But it would be good to have the damn obit filed away.<\/p>\n\n<p>It occurs to me that I am starting this week writing an obituary for the <em>Times<\/em>, and will finish it with a supper at the Athenaeum. Also the Oxford Union wants me to speak as &#8220;one of Britain&#8217;s best-known atheists&#8221;. Shit! Mother! Where did I go wrong? I don&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to be respectable. Solvent, yes. Able to travel &#8212; that&#8217;s a necessity. And &#8212; all right, admit it &#8212; I want to turn down a knighthood, as Neal Ascherson did.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I thought the worm book was over in this country, along comes a delicious review in the Sunday Times. And I caught three trout over the weekend, but that is a subject for a later entry. First to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585"}],"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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}