{"id":6894,"date":"2017-02-21T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T07:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2017-02-21T07:39:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T07:39:23","slug":"if-you-were-an-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/02\/21\/if-you-were-an-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"If you were an elephant ..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've written about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/02\/10\/being-a-beast\/\">Charles Foster<\/a> before \u2013 and shall do so again when I've slowly come to the end of\u00a0his magisterial\u00a0<em>Being a Beast. \u00a0<\/em>However, at the rate I'm going, I may never finish it as it's one of those books that demand a slow reading as every phrase and word counts. \u00a0Indeed, I re-read bits I've already read because it's so arresting. \u00a0As I have said before: outdoor learning will never be the same from hereon in.<\/p>\n<p>If you've not yet bought\u00a0<em>Beast<\/em>, just click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2017\/jan\/19\/if-you-were-an-elephant-\">here<\/a> for a taste of what's to come. \u00a0Foster is writing in the Guardian about elephants: reverentially and without sentiment. \u00a0If you were an elephant, Foster says,\u00a0the world would be a brighter, smellier, noisier place \u2013 and you would be a better, wiser, kinder person.<\/p>\n<p>Here's a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/2016\/11\/want-to-understand-your-animal-side-head-to-the-wellcome-collection\/\">link<\/a> to more of Foster's nature writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've written about Charles Foster before \u2013 and shall do so again when I've slowly come to the end of\u00a0his magisterial\u00a0Being a Beast. \u00a0However, at the rate I'm going, I may never finish it as it's one of those books...<\/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-6894","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\/6894","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=6894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}