{"id":428,"date":"2007-02-03T05:06:05","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T10:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localweb\/pipplings\/about-2\/"},"modified":"2007-02-03T05:06:05","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T10:06:05","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brackenbury.nz\/pipplings\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of electronic exchanges, beginning in 2007, between Ian Brackenbury, Rodger Hake, Tom Heywood, and Geoff Robinson.<\/p>\n<p>As Geoff mused recently: <em>Maybe we should form an <strong>&#8216;Idea of the Month Club&#8217;<\/strong> to keep our minds flexible?  i.e. take a topical idea and pull it apart for a few weeks and see what survives intellectual rigour.  There are plenty of candidates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you wondered why the weblog is called <strong>Meldrew<\/strong>, then consider this snippet from a recent Robinson e-mail:<\/p>\n<p>Geoff: (Thinks: <em>Q: What&#8217;s the second best aspect of getting old?  A: Turning into Victor Meldrew.  Q: What&#8217;s the best aspect of getting old?  A: Realising that you quite enjoy the role.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of electronic exchanges, beginning in 2007, between Ian Brackenbury, Rodger Hake, Tom Heywood, and Geoff Robinson. As Geoff mused recently: Maybe we should form an &#8216;Idea of the Month Club&#8217; to keep our minds flexible? i.e. take a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brackenbury.nz\/pipplings\/about-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackenbury.nz\/pipplings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackenbury.nz\/pipplings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackenbury.nz\/pipplings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackenbury.nz\/pipplings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackenbury.nz\/pipplings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackenbury.nz\/pipplings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackenbury.nz\/pipplings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}