{"id":1046,"date":"2013-04-30T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoningsmirror.wordpress.com\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2013-04-30T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:21:56","slug":"seasoned-with-a-sprinkling-of-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSeasoned with a sprinkling of science\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s what it says here. I\u2019m never going to live this one down. <\/p>\n<p>From 19 &#8211; 24 August 2013 I\u2019ll be at Totleigh Barton, \u201ca thatched, pre-Domesday manor house, nestled in the rolling hills of one of the most peaceful and beautiful parts of Devon,\u201d teaching for the Arvon Foundation alongside <a href=\"\/\/www.taniahershman.com\u201d\">Tania Hershman<\/a>, one of the country\u2019s more energetic champions of the short story. We\u2019ll be guiding new, uncertain, confused and increasingly anxious writers through the interzone between fiction and science writing in a course imaginatively titled <a href=\"\/\/www.arvonfoundation.org\/science-and-writing#-Overview\u201d\"><strong>Science and Writing<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/totleigh_barton_659.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/totleigh_barton_659.jpg\" alt=\"Totleigh Barton\" width=\"584\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1047\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/totleigh_barton_659.jpg 659w, http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/totleigh_barton_659-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It says here that \u201cwe will be giving you different ways to sprinkle science into your writing,  encouraging you to play!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ha. Expect intense intellectual rigour, cut with grotesque displays of temper, as we attempt to fuse the two cultures in the magnetic bottle of us getting paid for once.<\/p>\n<p>Heidi Williamson, who was was poet-in-residence at the Science Museum\u2019s Dana Centre, is our guest reader.<\/p>\n<p>The course costs between \u00a3620 and \u00a3680 and grants are available for those on low income &#8211; click <a href=\"\/\/www.arvonfoundation.org\/grants\u201d\">here<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s what it says here. I\u2019m never going to live this one down. From 19 &#8211; 24 August 2013 I\u2019ll be at Totleigh Barton, \u201ca thatched, pre-Domesday manor house, nestled in the rolling hills of one of the most peaceful &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=1046\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[156,158,283],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-courses","tag-creative-writing","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}