Amazingly it’s the first week of August already. The organisations on which I sit do not have formal meetings, so it’s a light month for me and I like to have a project.<\/p>\n
Two summers ago, the project was to write five short stories. I exceeded my target and continued with the exercise so that now I have written 27 short stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n This August, I’ve decided on a reading project. I read quite a lot, but almost twice as much non-fiction as fiction and the fiction I read is contemporary. Since I left school, I’ve hardly consumed any classic fiction.<\/p>\n So I’ve decided to read two classic British works – one by a male author and another by a female writer. I’ve bought new hard-back editions of\u00a0 “A Tale Of Two Cities”<\/a> by Charles Dickens\u00a0 (1859) and “Wuthering Heights”<\/a> by Emily Bronte (1847).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazingly it’s the first week of August already. The organisations on which I sit do not have formal meetings, so it’s a light month for me and I like to have a project. Two summers ago, the project was to write five short stories. I exceeded my target and continued with the exercise so that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6331\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}