{"id":1451,"date":"2013-07-05T12:40:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2013-07-05T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T12:40:46","slug":"like-a-fiend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Like a Fiend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Lately, while gathering up what needs to be done to my current book, I&#8217;ve been engaged in one of my favourite bits of the whole writing process \u2013 researching things that might be relevant to <b>my next<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Areas I read up on for my current book included <b>cochlear implants<\/b>, <b>radical politics<\/b> and <b>marine biology<\/b>. I found that the less I knew about each subject to begin with, the more satisfying it was to research it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1452\" alt=\"Research050713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Research050713.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Research050713.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Research050713-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As anyone who knows what I look like will confirm, the subject I&#8217;m researching now is one about which I know <b>nothing whatsoever<\/b>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, while gathering up what needs to be done to my current book, I&#8217;ve been engaged in one of my favourite bits of the whole writing process \u2013 researching things that might be relevant to my next. Areas I read up on for my current book included cochlear implants, radical politics and marine biology. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bwaha-bwahahahaha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}