{"id":4156,"date":"2026-03-10T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=4156"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:08:24","slug":"teen-hackers-and-vampires-at-the-oxford-literary-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=4156","title":{"rendered":"Teen hackers and vampires at the Oxford Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sheldonian_Theatre_Interior-_Oxford-_UK_-_Diliff.avif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sheldonian_Theatre_Interior-_Oxford-_UK_-_Diliff.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1525\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year at the <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordliteraryfestival.org\/\">Oxford Literary Festival<\/a>\u00a0I&#8217;ll be talking to John Blair about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=4140\">killing the dead<\/a>, and learning from Joe Tidy how to hijack the internet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday, 22 March 2026<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>12:00pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordliteraryfestival.org\/literature-events\/2026\/march-22\/ctrl-alt-chaos-how-teenage-hackers-hijack-the-internet\">Joe Tidy<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ctrl+ Alt+ Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack the Internet<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, 25 March 2026<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10:00am<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordliteraryfestival.org\/literature-events\/2026\/march-25\/killing-the-dead-vampire-epidemics-from-mesopotamia-to-the-new-world\">John Blair<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year at the Oxford Literary Festival\u00a0I&#8217;ll be talking to John Blair about killing the dead, and learning from Joe Tidy how to hijack the internet. Sunday, 22 March 2026 12:00pm Joe Tidy Ctrl+ Alt+ Chaos: How Teenage Hackers Hijack &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/?p=4156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617,31],"tags":[179,1249,196,197,1239,1216],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reviews-and-opinion","category-events","tag-festival","tag-hackers","tag-internet","tag-interview","tag-vampires","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156","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=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4158,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions\/4158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.simonings.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}