{"id":3508,"date":"2022-07-10T16:53:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T15:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/?p=3508"},"modified":"2022-07-13T16:58:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:58:13","slug":"message-for-my-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/2022\/07\/10\/message-for-my-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Message for my reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the longest time I have been meaning to get back to\u2014ugh!<\/a>\u2014blogging. Regular readers, should any remain, will see that this is the first post of 2022. I haven\u2019t broken any promises with the hiatus and have no excuses to make.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been busy. I know \u2013\u00a0who hasn\u2019t<\/em> been busy in UK academia? Nevertheless, the first half of this year was intense, with several major deadlines that left little mental spare capacity. Plus I\u2019m not getting any younger. I think my recovery times may be lengthening \u2013 I don\u2019t remember always being this tired at the end of every day. And then there is the wearisome effects of the ongoing disaster of UK politics, which passed through its latest crisis in this past week with the resignation of Boris Johnson<\/a>. The runners are now lining up for the next one as the Conservative party leadership contest gets under way. Ho hum. Plus \u00e7a change. Perhaps age is making me more cynical. Or is it experience? Added to all this is a feeling, no doubt exacerbated by social media, that there are just too many words spewing forth into the world these days. Why add to that?<\/p>\n

And yet, and yet, there are important things to think about. I\u2019ve always regarded blogging as a form of thinking out loud, a discipline that forces me to do my research and get my thoughts in order on a whole range to topics. I\u2019ve missed the rigour of that process.<\/p>\n

So here goes, again. Though not just yet. My aim is to keep things short for now. So let me leave you with someone else\u2019s thoughts. Here is Brandon Taylor\u2019s substack post<\/a> \u2013 apparently that\u2019s what we call blogposts these days \u2013\u00a0on Netflix\u2019s adaptation of Jane Austen\u2019s Persuasion. <\/em>I haven\u2019t seen the show or read the book (yet) but I do so enjoy Taylor\u2019s ability to write in a style that manages to be loose, funny and razor sharp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the longest time I have been meaning to get back to\u2014ugh!\u2014blogging. Regular readers, should any remain, will see that this is the first post of 2022. I haven\u2019t broken any promises with the hiatus and have no excuses to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}