{"id":599,"date":"2015-05-31T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/31\/may-2015-in-review\/"},"modified":"2015-05-31T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T22:59:00","slug":"may-2015-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/31\/may-2015-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2015 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an index and summary of the things I&#8217;ve talked about over the last month.  Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it&#8217;s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there.<\/p>\n<h3>Books<\/h3>\n<h4>Fiction<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/sea-thy-mistress-elizabeth-bear\">&#8220;The Sea Thy Mistress&#8221; Elizabeth Bear<\/a> &#8211; third book in the Edda of Burdens series. New.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n<h3>Photos<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/23\/all-seeing\">All Seeing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/and-i-must-scream\">And I Must Scream &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/30\/look-stars\">Look to the Stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/16\/looking-greener-grass\">Looking for the Greener Grass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/09\/symbols-power\">Symbols of Power<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 5<\/p>\n<h3>Radio<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/11\/our-time-photon\">The Photon<\/a> &#8211; In Our Time episode about light &#038; photons.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n<h3>Talks<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/22\/ark-tablet-how-life-assyriologist-could-be-transformed-single-tablet-sixty-lines\">&#8220;The Ark Tablet: How the Life of an Assyriologist Could be Transformed by a Single Tablet with Sixty Lines of Writing&#8221; Irving Finkel<\/a> &#8211; the fourth talk in the BSS Study Day on cuneiform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/egyptian-fortifications-canaan-rupert-chapman-eeg-meeting-talk\">&#8220;Egyptian Fortifications in Canaan&#8221; Rupert Chapman<\/a> &#8211; talk at the May EEG meeting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/08\/royal-game-ur-ancient-grave-modern-rebirth-irving-finkel-part-3-bss-study-day\">&#8220;The Royal Game of Ur: From Ancient Grave to Modern Rebirth&#8221; Irving Finkel<\/a> &#8211; the third part of the BSS Study Day on cuneiform.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 3<\/p>\n<h3>Television<\/h3>\n<h4>Non-Fiction<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/cleopatra-timewatch-guide\">Cleopatra: A Timewatch Guide<\/a> &#8211; a rather substandard programme about how our ideas of Cleopatra have changed over the years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 1<\/p>\n<h3>Trip<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/egypt-holiday-2014-seti-i-temple-abydos\">Egypt Holiday 2014: Seti I Temple at Abydos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/13\/egypt-holiday-2014-ramesses-ii-temple-abydos\">Egypt Holiday 2014: Ramesses II Temple at Abydos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/egypt-holiday-2014-dendara-temple\">Egypt Holiday 2014: Dendara Temple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total:<\/b> 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an index and summary of the things I&#8217;ve talked about over the last month. Links for multi-post subjects go to the first post (even if it&#8217;s before this month), you can follow the internal navigation links from there. Books Fiction &#8220;The Sea Thy Mistress&#8221; Elizabeth Bear &#8211; third book in the Edda of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2015\/05\/31\/may-2015-in-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May 2015 in Review&#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":[178],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}