{"id":244,"date":"2007-11-17T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblankscreen.co.uk\/selfdistract\/2007\/11\/17\/graphite-by-example\/"},"modified":"2007-11-17T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T20:09:00","slug":"graphite-by-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2007\/11\/17\/graphite-by-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphite by example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presumably you&#8217;re on the side of the writers in the US strike: if not, hello, it&#8217;s funny you should stop by here just when I&#8217;m talking about you and the other five people backing the producers.<\/p>\n<p>But if you are one of those, do please look away now and don&#8217;t spoil the surprise: I&#8217;ve just sent you a gift. Like socks at Christmas, it&#8217;s a nice gift that you&#8217;re going to get sick of. <\/p>\n<p>Writers across the world are being asked to show support for the US strike by sending a box of pencils to the heads of the studios holding out. Being writers, these pencils are imbued with symbolism and you want to chip in, don&#8217;t you? It&#8217;ll cost a dollar: <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedhollywood.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/pencils2mediamoguls.html\">click here to do the deed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ta to <a href=\"http:\/\/pavementandstars.blogspot.com\/\">Piers<\/a> for blogging about it even as he should be giving me notes on a script.<\/p>\n<p>William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumably you&#8217;re on the side of the writers in the US strike: if not, hello, it&#8217;s funny you should stop &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2007\/11\/17\/graphite-by-example\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4chyI-3W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}