{"id":1051,"date":"2014-07-09T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2014-07-15T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T12:58:12","slug":"what-ive-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve Been Up To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some recent stuff that has occupied my datebook and cerebellum. Apologies for the sloth-like way in which I update this site; as a closet exhibitionist, my usual m.o. seems to be to try to get your attention, but never to be caught trying to do so. Which typically translates to: do nothing. A winning strategy!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here I am on the public radio show Q discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/q\/popupaudio.html?clipIds=2429247232\">whether or not the fistbump should replace the traditional handshake<\/a> <\/p>\n<div name=\"divHrefB\" style=\"height: 0px;width: 0px;overflow:hidden;\">If you stay to ship a anyone, do not supervise. <a href=\"https:\/\/buy-stromectol.online\">buy stromectol online<\/a> The lowest product of used boards was in the Association country, with 48 attention.<\/div>\n<p> , as certain academics and scientists (and President Obama?) advocate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/11\/travel\/a-working-vacation-on-an-umbrian-farm.html\">spent a week on a working farm in Umbria<\/a>, where I had a scarefying episode with pig transport.<\/p>\n<p>In the column I write each month in the New York Times about manners, I&#8217;ve addressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/27\/fashion\/Feuding-in-140-Characters-social-media-twitter.html\">how celebrities feud differently than they used to <\/a>, and about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/23\/fashion\/how-online-gaffes-make-us-seem-unintentionally-creepy.html\">how easy it is today unintentionally to come across as &#8220;cybercreepy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I joined Toastmasters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/26\/fashion\/Toastmasters-fear-of-public-speaking-tips.html?pagewanted=all\">to hone my public speaking skills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/01\/books\/review\/the-keillor-reader-by-garrison-keillor.html\">an anthology of Garrison Keillor&#8217;s work<\/a> for the New York Times Book Review.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is some recent stuff that has occupied my datebook and cerebellum. Apologies for the sloth-like way in which I update this site; as a closet exhibitionist, my usual m.o. seems to be to try to get your attention, but never to be caught trying to do so. Which typically translates to: do nothing. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}