{"id":414,"date":"2014-04-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/04\/28\/monday-link-salad-8\/"},"modified":"2014-04-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T11:00:00","slug":"monday-link-salad-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/04\/28\/monday-link-salad-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Link Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;The Steerswoman&#8221; by Rosemary Kirstein several times and <a href=\"http:\/\/james-nicoll.livejournal.com\/4909464.html\">here&#8217;s another review<\/a> &#8211; sadly not in the library, so this is as much a note to myself to buy it sometime as anything else!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.demilked.com\/truth-facts-funny-graphs-wumo\/\">Some amusing graphs and infographics<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m particularly amused by the movie seats one with the relative heights of people around you, as that describes my gig experience too \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scilogs.com\/expiscor\/ten-facts-about-aphids\/\">Ten facts about aphids<\/a> &#8211; including cannibal aphids!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently started following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrapTaxidermy\">Crap Taxidermy<\/a> on Twitter coz the pictures are normally worth a giggle (tho the captions can be a bit hit &#038; miss for me).<\/p>\n<p>TV I&#8217;ve set recording this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00t9qv8\">Britain&#8217;s Park Story<\/a> &#8211; repeat of a Dan Cruickshank programme about Britain&#8217;s public parks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b042wzkr\">The Birth of Empire: The East India Company<\/a> &#8211; two part series presented by Dan Snow.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p01wq5xr\">The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain<\/a> &#8211; three part series presented by Lucy Worsley.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;The Steerswoman&#8221; by Rosemary Kirstein several times and here&#8217;s another review &#8211; sadly not in the library, so this is as much a note to myself to buy it sometime as anything else! Some amusing graphs and infographics &#8211; I&#8217;m particularly amused by the movie seats one with the relative heights of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/04\/28\/monday-link-salad-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday Link Salad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}