{"id":1422,"date":"2024-12-16T15:58:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T15:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2024-12-16T15:59:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T15:59:39","slug":"looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"Looking forward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Fimo-clay Christmas figurine of William Macintosh\u2014a hand-made present from my wife.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although I often lament how difficult it is to find time during the teaching term for research and writing, I have managed this year (somewhat to my surprise) to keep the book inching forward. There is, of course, a long way still to go, but the end of the current chapter is now just visible on the horizon, and I can imagine that one day it will be reached. Although 2025 holds in store a lot more writing, I will also have the opportunity to talk about my work on Macintosh during my professorial inaugural lecture (date TBC), a prospect about which I am both excited and trepidatious! The New Year will also, at some point, bring news of a fellowship application I submitted in the autumn which, if it were awarded, would allow me the time to finally bring the book to its close. Although I sometimes feel I could quite happily spend the next five years on the book (subject to the continued existence of the UK higher education sector, which is currently disintegrating), I want it to be done; I want the book to be out there, to find its audience, and to make its contribution. Onwards, onwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although I often lament how difficult it is to find time during the teaching term for research and writing, I have managed this year (somewhat to my surprise) to keep the book inching forward. There is, of course, a long way still to go, but the end of the current chapter is now just visible […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}