{"id":2694,"date":"2007-08-30T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2007-08-30T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T16:46:00","slug":"2694","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2007\/08\/long-post-im-afraid.html\">Neil Gaiman writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And it&#8217;s a wonderful thing being an honoured foreign guest somewhere like that &#8212; you get shown all the cool stuff, get to see Pandas, red ones and giant ones, and then find yourself put in a blue disposable smock and gloves (to protect the pandas from you, asnd not the other way around) and you get a year-old Panda placed on your lap. Utter, utter happiness. Better than any number of awards. Makes being a writer completely worthwhile. I suspect that world peace and harmony would come about in weeks if people just got to put pandas on their laps every few months. Honest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is why most people <i>become<\/i> writers, isn&#8217;t it? For the pandas?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Gaiman writes: And it&#8217;s a wonderful thing being an honoured foreign guest somewhere like that &#8212; you get shown all the cool stuff, get to see Pandas, red ones and giant ones, and then find yourself put in a blue disposable smock and gloves (to protect the pandas from you, asnd not the other &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2694\">Read more<\/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":[238],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}