Back from Australia, with jet lag. So posts will now resume as normal…<\/p>\n
I went to Australia 4 years ago on book tour and returned with bad jet lag, but had to speak at the Edinburgh book festival nevertheless. Being completely out of it I left my clothes behind in the hotel.<\/p>\n
Embarrassingly, I also failed to show up for a poetry reading thing for Amnesty where I was supposed to read a poem for a particular prisoner of conscience (whose name I can’t even remember – which makes it even worse).<\/p>\n
Polly Toynbee, whom I admire, was also reading one, so I suppose she now has me down as the bloke who couldn’t be bothered to show up for his Amnesty prisoner….<\/p>\n
One of my less impressive performances.<\/p>\n
Incidentally, at Cheltenham Festival about the same time I was collared to talk at short notice about The Philosophy Gym <\/span>on<\/span> camera for something called “Meet the author”. Unfortunately, I kept referring to it as “The Philosophy Files” (my other book). So I am now preserved for eternity on the internet talking complete gibberish about The Philosophy Files<\/span>. And it ranks v. high on Google under “Stephen Law”. Embarrassing moment here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back from Australia, with jet lag. So posts will now resume as normal… I went to Australia 4 years ago on book tour and returned with bad jet lag, but had to speak at the Edinburgh book festival nevertheless. Being completely out of it I left my clothes behind in the hotel. Embarrassingly, I also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embarrassing-moments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}