{"id":2378,"date":"2014-03-30T10:31:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T09:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2015-12-15T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T20:42:08","slug":"my-j-r-hartley-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/2378","title":{"rendered":"My J.R. Hartley Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-21-13.49.19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2379\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-21-13.49.19-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"2014-03-21 13.49.19\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-21-13.49.19-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-21-13.49.19-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/2014-03-21-13.49.19.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>Back in 1995 (nearly 20 years ago) I published a book with Richard Pankhurst. It was actually a dictionary but that doesn&#8217;t stop me talking about &#8220;my book&#8221; as if it were a novel when it is appropriate for bragging purposes. Sadly Richard died last year but I think he would have laughed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was in a second hand bookshop last week (it is a weakness a lot of us suffer from) and there was my (our) book. I&#8217;ve seen it cropping up in libraries but this is a first for a second hand book shop. I note the pages were yellowing already. They were asking \u00a32.50 for it which I think was a bit steep. I didn&#8217;t offer to sign it though my inner Gilderoy Lockhart was twitching.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">J.R. Hartley? You must remember the ad for yellow pages &#8211; but then it was 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nv1VQ7uSC-s\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1995 (nearly 20 years ago) I published a book with Richard Pankhurst. It was actually a dictionary but that doesn&#8217;t stop me talking about &#8220;my book&#8221; as if it were a novel when it is appropriate for bragging purposes. Sadly Richard died last year but I think he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}