{"id":196,"date":"2005-08-25T19:21:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T19:21:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-25T19:21:49","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T19:21:49","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Ping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m still here.<\/p>\n<p>Been away on and off for a week or so, and not too much to report really.  Read a couple of decent books including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099244721\/qid=1124993804\/sr=8-2\/ref=pd_ka_2\/202-3868367-0900643\">Timeline<\/a> by Michael Crichton, which is about a team of archaeologists who time travel back to the 1300&#8217;s.  It&#8217;s a good read.  Incidentally, whilst channel-hopping a few nights ago, spotted the film version of this, which was, erm, not as good as the book: it even features a horribly miscast Billy Connolly as the History professor.<\/p>\n<p>Also just started reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0091898234\/qid=1124993986\/sr=8-3\/ref=pd_ka_3\/202-3868367-0900643\">Darwin&#8217;s Watch: Science of Discworld<\/a>, which as the title suggests is about evolution.  Requires rather more concentration than some books, so I haven&#8217;t got far yet. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#8217;m still here. Been away on and off for a week or so, and not too much to report really. Read a couple of decent books including Timeline by Michael Crichton, which is about a team of archaeologists who time travel back to the 1300&#8217;s. It&#8217;s a good read. Incidentally, whilst channel-hopping a few&#8230;&nbsp;(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/?p=196\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sungate.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}