{"id":491,"date":"2014-07-10T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/?p=491"},"modified":"2014-07-10T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T15:36:57","slug":"back-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/07\/10\/back-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blog posts are like buses in rural Gloucestershire. \u00a0Nothing for a month, then two come along on the same day and, meandering around several tiny hamlets on the way to the final destination, take three hours longer than necessary to get there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting worried about spam. \u00a0It used to be that it offered medication for body parts I don&#8217;t have and technical advice I don&#8217;t understand, so it didn&#8217;t bother me much. However, it seems that they&#8217;re on to the real me as I am now receiving how-to-get-a-flat-belly spam. Depressing. \u00a0Like someone sits inside my computer screen and sees the ring doughnut round my middle.<\/p>\n<p>Writing news. \u00a0My aforementioned first-placed ghost story <em>Playing Out<\/em> is now available to read for free at <a title=\"writers online\" href=\"https:\/\/www.writers-online.co.uk\/Writing-Competitions\/More-Info\/148\/Playing_Out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writersonline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that thing I&#8217;d been working towards for a long time? \u00a0Very excited &#8211; I have been offered a place on the MA in Writing for Young People at <a title=\"Bath Spa Uni\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bathspa.ac.uk\/schools\/humanities-and-cultural-industries\/courses\/postgraduate\/writing-for-young-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bath Spa Uni<\/a>. \u00a0Looking forward to September and spending time at the stunning<a title=\"Corsham Court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.corsham-court.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Corsham Court <\/a>where the course is based. I thought I&#8217;d taken a photo of the amazing architecture or gorgeous grounds or perhaps one of the peacocks that wander freely there. \u00a0But, no. \u00a0Turns out the only thing I photographed was the loo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-496 aligncenter\" alt=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/photo.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, toilet humour and writing for children, goes hand in sticky little hand, surely?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog posts are like buses in rural Gloucestershire. \u00a0Nothing for a month, then two come along on the same day and, meandering around several tiny hamlets on the way to the final destination, take three hours longer than necessary to get there. I&#8217;m getting worried about spam. \u00a0It used to be that it offered medication &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/07\/10\/back-to-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back to Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,12,46,57],"tags":[71,75,117,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegreatprocrastinator.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}