{"id":1735,"date":"2008-09-02T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T13:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:33:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:33:44","slug":"a-poor-deluded-moonstruck-dimwit-with-less-idea-of-reality-than-a-day-old-chick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/a-poor-deluded-moonstruck-dimwit-with-less-idea-of-reality-than-a-day-old-chick\/","title":{"rendered":"A poor deluded moonstruck dimwit with less idea of reality than a day-old chick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is just one of the nice turns of phrase to come out of Philip Pullman&#8217;s address at the weekend to the Society of Authors&#8217; Conference in Cambridge.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.notoagebanding.org\/index.php?pullman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read it yourself<\/a>\u00a0to see exactly who he was speaking about.<\/p>\n<p>A clue is that he was talking about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.notoagebanding.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">age banding of books<\/a>, which has been\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/benjeapes.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/battle-of-bands.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mentioned briefly here<\/a>\u00a0before. His contention &#8211; and he gets no argument from me &#8211; is that age banding is just a symptom of a much wider spread illness of our modern world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is just one of the nice turns of phrase to come out of Philip Pullman&#8217;s address at the weekend to the Society of Authors&#8217; Conference in Cambridge.\u00a0Read it yourself\u00a0to see exactly who he was speaking about. A clue is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/a-poor-deluded-moonstruck-dimwit-with-less-idea-of-reality-than-a-day-old-chick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[381,216,382],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing-2","tag-age-bands","tag-publishing","tag-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4110,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions\/4110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}