{"id":37,"date":"2004-06-22T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-22T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2004-06-22T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-22T20:25:00","slug":"a-personal-thank-you-to-bill-bryson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"A personal thank you to Bill Bryson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always liked Bill Bryson&#8217;s books, enjoying his easy style and ready wit, and often suspected that I&#8217;d like the man in person should I ever bump into him.  Whilst that remains highly unlikely, I am more convinced than ever that I&#8217;d like him.  As the parent of a child who continues to undergo testing and treatment at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ich.ucl.ac.uk\/\">Great Ormond Street Hospital<\/a>, my eye was caught by <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,6109,1244883,00.html\">today&#8217;s announcement<\/a> that Bryson has donated a recent \u00c2\u00a310,000 science writing award to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosh.org\/index.html\">charity<\/a> which helps the hospital and it&#8217;s research facility, the Institute of Child Health.  Bryson won the Aventis award for his popular science book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385408188\">A Short History Of Nearly Everything<\/a>.  Upon hearing of Bryson&#8217;s intentions, Aventis matched his donation and the money will now go towards a new gene therapy unit at the IoCH.  Our family continue to benefit from the efforts of the doctors, nurses, researchers and staff at GOSH and the IoCH to push the boundaries of child medicine and increase the understanding of genetic disorders.  For helping continue that work, my thanks to Bill Bryson and Aventis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always liked Bill Bryson&#8217;s books, enjoying his easy style and ready wit, and often suspected that I&#8217;d like the man in person should I ever bump into him. Whilst that remains highly unlikely, I am more convinced than ever that I&#8217;d like him. As the parent of a child who continues to undergo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}