{"id":195,"date":"2004-04-10T23:32:27","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T23:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/wordpress\/?p=195"},"modified":"2005-04-17T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T08:02:03","slug":"simon-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Crowley Conference Notes and AC Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my obsessive pursuit of Andrew Collins, I trekked up to London today to see him speak at the Crowley Conference.  Here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/images\/accrowley.rtf\">are my notes from his talk <\/a>.    Simultaneously I have just been gazumped in an ebay auction for a copy of his rare &#8211; and valuable &#8211; book &#8220;The Second Coming&#8221;.  I led the bidding for most of the seven day auction with an insane looking bid of \u00a316 but in the last five seconds of the auction chiggers2002 (bastard!) upped it to \u00a317 leaving me no time to reply.    The crushing disappointment was somewhat mitigated by the appearance elsewhere on ebay of a second copy of the second coming.  The new auction closes next Sunday, bids are already coming in but this time everybody else had better watch out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my obsessive pursuit of Andrew Collins, I trekked up to London today to see him speak at the Crowley Conference. Here are my notes from his talk . Simultaneously I have just been gazumped in an ebay auction for&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/?p=195\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonjnugent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}