{"id":1332,"date":"2009-11-21T15:09:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T14:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2009-11-21T15:13:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T14:13:50","slug":"magical-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1332","title":{"rendered":"Magical stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1333\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1333\" title=\"dark\" src=\"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dark-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Experimental picture taken after dark at Aldeburgh and digitally altered in a pretty basic way. Quite like it.\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dark-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/dark.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Experimental picture taken after dark at Aldeburgh and digitally altered in a pretty basic way. Quite like it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Awaiting the arrival of David and grandchildren: weather mild. Have just been out briefly to book Prezzo&#8217;s for lunch tomorrow. Earlier I cleared up some more leaves: I&#8217;m becoming something of an expert. Last night was a big success: for Dot&#8217;s birthday dinner we went with the Robinsons to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norfolkmead.co.uk\/\">Norfolk Mead <\/a>hotel at Coltishall and had an excellent meal. Also very relaxed and quiet, so pretty well perfect. Afterwards we came out to see a sky full of bright stars. Magical.<\/p>\n<p>Have just finished my talk for Sunday on Christ the King. Found it difficult to prepare, because I kept getting bogged down in fascinating byways as to the true meaning of certain words in the Hebrew and Aramaic. Have rewritten first verse of Genesis to read: At source, God filled the skies and the earth as an ox moving the plough towards its mark. Not exactly traditional; I may not mention it tomorrow. On the other hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Managed to draw my chess game on Wednesday by winning a pawn in the opening and getting a big advantage, then letting my opponent off the hook. Quite happy really, because he&#8217;s graded higher than me. Drove the entire team down there, so very late back. Meanwhile, Dot went to a DCC meeting, so she had to tell me all about it. Result: very late in bed.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of activity on internet about leaked e-mails from UEA climate scientists which seem to reveal fiddling of data and some rather unpleasant tactics to silence sceptics. Phil Jones of UEA has apparently admitted they&#8217;re genuine. Will be interesting to see how the BBC manages to ignore this. By ignoring it, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awaiting the arrival of David and grandchildren: weather mild. Have just been out briefly to book Prezzo&#8217;s for lunch tomorrow. Earlier I cleared up some more leaves: I&#8217;m becoming something of an expert. Last night was a big success: for Dot&#8217;s birthday dinner we went with the Robinsons to the Norfolk Mead hotel at Coltishall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magical stars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[905,946,955,978],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthday","tag-chess","tag-climate","tag-dot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}