{"id":500,"date":"2012-09-24T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/?p=500"},"modified":"2012-09-24T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T09:22:35","slug":"the-shortest-and-the-longest-celebrating-two-years-with-an-invitation-to-read-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2012\/09\/24\/the-shortest-and-the-longest-celebrating-two-years-with-an-invitation-to-read-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>THE SHORTEST AND THE LONGEST: CELEBRATING TWO YEARS (WITH AN INVITATION TO READ SF) <\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, on September 19 2010, I started publishing my ranting and raving on teaching English Literature (and other academic matters) here. I am very much surprised myself by the frequency and regularity of my postings, which now amount to 100,000 words, a long book.<\/p>\n<p>Writing this blog, my journal of the plague years of the crisis, feels often very, very lonely. Yet, it keeps me sane (or rather, it prevents me from going insane) and, well, from comments published here and others I get in person, my guess is that someone is reading me, if only a few (thanks Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel, I appreciate!!). I don\u2019t think I have ever wasted my time writing here, quite the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to celebrate I\u2019m giving away here a Guide I\u2019ve written for anyone who might be interested, like me, in doing research in the field of SF. Yes, I know, it\u2019s an odd gift, but, I don\u2019t know, it just feels right. I hope someone \u2018out there\u2019 enjoys it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/189\/2012\/09\/RESEARCHING-SCIENCE-FICTION1.pdf'>RESEARCHING SCIENCE FICTION<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, on September 19 2010, I started publishing my ranting and raving on teaching English Literature (and other academic matters) here. I am very much surprised myself by the frequency and regularity of my postings, which now amount to 100,000 words, a long book. Writing this blog, my journal of the plague years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}