{"id":506,"date":"2013-04-08T22:35:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/?p=506"},"modified":"2013-04-08T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T10:31:33","slug":"off-to-the-other-side-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2013\/04\/08\/off-to-the-other-side-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to the other side of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a brief announcement to explain that as this publishes I should be off on my travels again. This time I&#8217;m going further than ever before (no, I&#8217;m not travelling by standing on the shoulders of giants). I&#8217;m off to&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:300%\">Australia!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yay, and I&#8217;m doing it without first having to break any laws. The official reason for this is to do some work: finish off writing some papers we started years ago (if we have the time, we might prod bulbous squidges with a sharp stick), and also perhaps start some new stuff that we won&#8217;t finish for another half decade. Of course, the real reason is to <strike>make GrrlScientist really jealous<\/strike> see a new country, and take photos of bits of it.<\/p>\n<p>So, for the next couple of weeks I&#8217;ll mainly be in <a>Townsville<\/a>, which seems to be most of the way up the eastern side of Oz. I&#8217;ll also be in Cairns for a couple of days, to build another small pile of rocks.<br \/>\n<a title=\"By Thomas Schoch [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AUluru_Australia(1).jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" alt=\"Uluru Australia(1)\" src=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1a\/Uluru_Australia%281%29.jpg\/512px-Uluru_Australia%281%29.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>The Original Cairn, which I will be nowhere near<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll endeavour to blog about my travels there (Day 36: First draft of Introduction completed, almost out of fingers. Hordes of budgerigars still at the windows, desperate to show us their new cycling tricks). So, ironically, I might actually do more blogging whilst I&#8217;m away: when I&#8217;m at home I&#8217;m constantly being distracted by hordes of parrots desperate to remove my fingers because I didn&#8217;t scratch their head correctly. And as for the rams&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Whilst I&#8217;m flying, your homework is to <a href=\"http:\/\/simonleather.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/08\/i-believe-in-ecology-but-is-it-a-deeply-held-faith\/\">read up on why my beliefs are now protected in the UK workplace<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t hear from me for 5 weeks, it probably means I decided to take the boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just a brief announcement to explain that as this publishes I should be off on my travels again. This time I&#8217;m going further than ever before (no, I&#8217;m not travelling by standing on the shoulders of giants). I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2013\/04\/08\/off-to-the-other-side-of-the-world\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}