{"id":183,"date":"2004-06-16T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/16\/bill-bryson-scoops-a-prize\/"},"modified":"2004-06-16T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T22:21:00","slug":"bill-bryson-scoops-a-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/16\/bill-bryson-scoops-a-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Bryson scoops a prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention that Bill Bryson&#8217;s book &#8220;A Short History of Nearly Everything&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/news\/news.jsp?id=ns99995108\">won the Aventis Science Book Prize<\/a> on Monday night which was well deserved. Bryson was the first non-scientist to win the prize and decided to donate the \u00a310,000 winnings to charity. Upon hearing this, &#8220;Oldenburg was impressed and pledged the foundation would match Bryson&#8217;s donation.&#8221; I can recommend the book which took me an age to read but was well worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/djkoa.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">djkoa<\/a> is getting a GMail account which I&#8217;m dying to have a look at and Firefox 0.9 was officially released today. You can copy images at last! A few good improvements and things fixed. <\/p>\n<p>I spent most of today setting up a bank account and filling out medical forms and writing letters, very dull.<\/p>\n<p>I was awoken by a beautiful woman bearing warm croissants and fresh bread for breakfast this morning. I was delighted when I realised I wasn&#8217;t dreaming \ud83d\ude42 I don&#8217;t tell <a href=\"http:\/\/lauperr.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">lauperr<\/a> how special she is often enough.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hippygeek.co.uk\/images\/blackrose.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to mention that Bill Bryson&#8217;s book &#8220;A Short History of Nearly Everything&#8221; won the Aventis Science Book Prize on Monday night which was well deserved. Bryson was the first non-scientist to win the prize and decided to donate the \u00a310,000 winnings to charity. Upon hearing this, &#8220;Oldenburg was impressed and pledged the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2004\/06\/16\/bill-bryson-scoops-a-prize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill Bryson scoops a prize<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}