{"id":1809,"date":"2015-02-05T14:39:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T14:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2015-02-05T14:39:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T14:39:48","slug":"reverberating-in-ravensbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"Reverberating in Ravensbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An ecstatically cackling <strong>THANK YOU<\/strong> to staff and students at <strong>The Ravensbourne School <\/strong>in <strong>Bromley<\/strong> for the warm welcome they gave me yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In two sessions I spoke to the whole of <strong>Years 8 and 9<\/strong> &#8211; about five hundred students in all, full of excellent questions about books, writing and life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1812\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ReverberatinginRavensbourne040215.jpg\" alt=\"ReverberatinginRavensbourne040215\" width=\"800\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ReverberatinginRavensbourne040215.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ReverberatinginRavensbourne040215-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Giving readings in Ravensbourne&#8217;s gorgeous <strong>school hall <\/strong>was a particular thrill. The opening scene of <strong>Crawlers<\/strong> &#8211; and the scream of the Queen&#8217;s first victim &#8211; produced an intensely satisfying <strong>echo<\/strong>. I hope it inspired some students to\u00a0<strong>read on<\/strong> as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattpad.com\/story\/30630894-crawlers\"><strong>Crawlers<\/strong> continues on <strong>Wattpad<\/strong><\/a>. It certainly made some of them\u00a0<strong>flinch<\/strong>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ecstatically cackling THANK YOU to staff and students at The Ravensbourne School in Bromley for the warm welcome they gave me yesterday. In two sessions I spoke to the whole of Years 8 and 9 &#8211; about five hundred students in all, full of excellent questions about books, writing and life. Giving readings in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-and-appearances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","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=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}