{"id":1839,"date":"2014-12-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2014\/12\/a-sidekick-advent-calendar-day-1.html\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T19:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T19:09:52","slug":"a-sidekick-advent-calendar-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2014\/12\/a-sidekick-advent-calendar-day-1.html\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sidekick Advent Calendar: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TehPuJXRRyU\/VHuN3p7fJOI\/AAAAAAAAAtE\/P9VKq1Cho6s\/s1600\/calendarbandijcat.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-TehPuJXRRyU\/VHuN3p7fJOI\/AAAAAAAAAtE\/P9VKq1Cho6s\/s1600\/calendarbandijcat.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>Well , well, well! Yes, yes, yes! Dr F and Sidekick are counting down to Christmas this year with an array of pleasant and disturbing seasonally-related items to dispense daily from the digital laboratory, via the Sidekick blog, Facebook and Twitter. The ghost-poems (ghoems?) of past, present and future are all accounted for, with previews, revisitations and brand new work all to come. And quizzes too!<br \/><br \/>On the first day of Christmas (which is technically the 25th December but to this end, it is the 1st), my true love gave to me &#8230;<br \/><br \/><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-nAyYYq5QdeQ\/VHO0ZVNBo6I\/AAAAAAAAAqQ\/bQl4MRHuB4I\/s1600\/bb3partridgefull.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-nAyYYq5QdeQ\/VHO0ZVNBo6I\/AAAAAAAAAqQ\/bQl4MRHuB4I\/s1600\/bb3partridgefull.jpg\" height=\"305\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div><br \/>&#8230; a partridge in a preview from <i>Birdbook 3. <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drfulminare.com\/bb3partridge.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view in pdf format.<br \/><br \/>The third and penultimate volume in our ongoing series (full title <i>Birdbook: Farmland. Heathland, Mountain, Moorland<\/i>)<i>&nbsp;<\/i> is currently circling a definitive release date early next year, once the good doctor has finished working through snowy reams of hand-written calculations reaching deep into the catacombs. Here&#8217;s an exclusive taster &#8211; the plump and chestnutty grey partridge, poem by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipcowell.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Cowell<\/a>, paper-cutting by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loiscordelia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lois Cordelia<\/a>, who is also responsible for the book&#8217;s cover art.<br \/><br \/><div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yrZYjI-8Jmk\/VHO1Lpm_7YI\/AAAAAAAAAqY\/rZRq9b1_gBU\/s1600\/coverpreview.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-yrZYjI-8Jmk\/VHO1Lpm_7YI\/AAAAAAAAAqY\/rZRq9b1_gBU\/s1600\/coverpreview.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/div><br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well , well, well! Yes, yes, yes! Dr F and Sidekick are counting down to Christmas this year with an array of pleasant and disturbing seasonally-related items to dispense daily from the digital laboratory, via the Sidekick blog, Facebook and Twitter. The ghost-poems (ghoems?) of past, present and future are all accounted for, with previews, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/2014\/12\/a-sidekick-advent-calendar-day-1.html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Sidekick Advent Calendar: Day 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[428,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advent-calendar","category-birdbook-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sidekickbooks.com\/booklab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}