{"id":326,"date":"2012-03-22T01:16:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickwood.frogwrite.co.nz\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2012-03-22T01:16:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T01:16:19","slug":"2007-blog-archive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?page_id=326","title":{"rendered":"2007 Blog Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\"><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=352\">Nick Wood &#8211; December 2007\/January 2008<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">What is change? This is one of the &#39;problem based learning&#39; exercise questions we sometimes ask our new clinical psychology trainees to research and report on, with particular reference to clinical practice. It&#39;s a peculiarly science fictional theme too, where the notion of the &#39;future&#39; as distinct from the present is speculated upon, very often ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=352\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=273\">Nick Wood &#8211; November\/December 2007<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">On the Colour and Texture of Intelligence\nJames D. Watson (of DNA double-helix Watson &#038; Crick fame) has recently cancelled several UK engagements to return to the US, having made comments that revealed a belief that black people were &#39;less intelligent&#39; than whites. The assertion was based on his belief that: &#39;There is no firm reason ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=273\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=270\">Nick Wood &#8211; September\/October 2007<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">For any who might be interested, I&#39;ve uploaded the short piece that was originally published in the BSFA&#39;s Vector 147 &#40;2006&#41;, entitled The Search For South African Science Fiction, under the SF in SA section &#40;part 5&#41;; although for the sake of continuity, part 3 was added on after I&#39;d written the Vector piece.\nTanya Barben, ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=270\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=263\">Nick Wood &#8211; August\/September 2007<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">\nIt is anti-racism blog week currently:  http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/ibarw\/ &#8211; so I guess it&#39;s only fitting I&#39;ve recently read Steve Biko&#39;s I write what I like &#45; a collection of political essays banned at the time in apartheid South Africa. The official (white) line at the time was obviously that his ideas were of extreme, radical ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=263\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=260\">Nick Wood &#8211; June\/July 2007<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">I have recently read The Denials of Kow Ten (1998) by Jenny Robson, a South African Young Adult (YA) writer. Jenny has written an interesting take on the future, harnessing ideas from &#8211; amongst other sources &#8211; Ayn Rand. The novella is &quot;brave&quot; too, in the sense that the ending is less than upbeat, reflecting ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=260\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=248\">Nick Wood &#8211; April\/May 2007<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Stories come in many forms and I heard one recently in Cape Town, all the more impressive for its basis in reality. Having organised with the South African Environment Project (SAEP) &#45; http:\/\/www.saep.org\/ &#45; to go into a township school again, I ended up spending two mornings at Sophumelela Secondary (High) school near Phillipi in ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=248\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=245\">Nick Wood &#8211; March 2007<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Just a snippet of a dream to share since last time &#45; &#39;losing&#39; my youngest daughter while busy running around dealing with demands from a variety of people &#45; to which I woke abruptly with a shock and some relief it was &#39;only a dream&#39;. This was obviously a message reinforcing the need to finding ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=245\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=242\">Nick Wood &#8211; February 2007<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Just a brief update before uploading more information at the end of this month (February 2007) &#45; I have made available several copies of my book The Stone Chameleon for purchasing through Amazon.co.uk &#45; I have done this as I am aware it is difficult getting hold of personal copies through the publisher Maskew-Miller Longman, ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=242\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><li><h2 class=\"lcp_post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=239\">Nick Wood &#8211; January\/February 2007<\/a><\/h2>  <div class=\"lcp_excerpt\">Happy New Year to all for whom it is a new year- and hopefully a continuing happy &#39;old&#39; year for those to whom it is not new!  I have good news since my last blog &#45; it seems that the High Court in Botswana has ruled in favour of the San against the Botswanan ...<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/?p=239\" class=\"lcp_link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":108,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-326","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickwood.eketahuna.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}