{"id":6884,"date":"2017-02-10T06:11:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T06:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2017-02-10T06:11:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T06:11:35","slug":"being-a-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/02\/10\/being-a-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading (slowly) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesfoster.co.uk\/?page_id=2\">Charles Foster's<\/a> <em><strong>Being a Beast<\/strong><\/em> published by Profile Books\u00a02016, ISBN 978-1781255346<\/p>\n<p>It's a book where the\u00a0<em>being<\/em>\u00a0(as opposed to <em>being with<\/em>\u00a0has to be taken seriously. \u00a0I suppose a more apt\u00a0title might have been <em>Trying to be a Beast<\/em>, given that Foster never quite escapes his human-ness, but that's\u00a0to nit pick. \u00a0\u00a0Anyway, if you've not read it, I can only say that you are missing an essential dimension to\u00a0<em>outdoor learning.<\/em>\u00a0 I, for one, shall never think about otters or foxes in the same way again. \u00a0Do read it, and maybe you will wonder with me how he kept his lucky children out of the clutches of the guardians of public morality and safety.<\/p>\n<p>Quite understandably, <em>Being a Beast<\/em> won an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\">IgNobel<\/a> prize. \u00a0The citation was: Awarded jointly to Charles Foster, for living in the wild as, at different times, a badger, an otter, a deer, a fox, and a bird; and to\u00a0Thomas Thwaites, for creating prosthetic extensions of his limbs that allowed him to move in the manner of, and spend time roaming hills in the company of, goats. \u00a0All part of life ...<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reading (slowly) Charles Foster's Being a Beast published by Profile Books\u00a02016, ISBN 978-1781255346 It's a book where the\u00a0being\u00a0(as opposed to being with\u00a0has to be taken seriously. \u00a0I suppose a more apt\u00a0title might have been Trying to be a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}