{"id":721,"date":"2020-04-09T22:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=721"},"modified":"2020-04-09T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T21:08:56","slug":"eighth-time-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Eighth time lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-1-1024x342.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-1-1024x342.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-1-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-1-768x257.jpg 768w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-1-624x209.jpg 624w, https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Leverhulme_Trust_CMYK_blue-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Saturday marked the eighth birthday of <em>On the archival trail of William Macintosh<\/em>. So many things have changed since I began documenting my work on Macintosh that it feels like I&#8217;ve been chipping away at this project for much, much longer. The work has always been a pleasure, and is a constant source of fascination, but it has often been frustrating not to be able to carve out the concentrated time that the project really deserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was, therefore, delighted to learn last week that my application to the Leverhulme Trust for a Research Fellowship had been approved. After seven failed attempts to secure grants from a range of funding bodies to support my work on Macintosh, this news came as both a wonderful surprise and a huge relief. The Fellowship will allow me to focus on the Macintosh project full time for a year from 1 September 2020.  I hope in that time to make very substantial progress on the book I have long planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To have received this news in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic\u2014when so much else, both personally and professionally, feels strange, uncertain, and worrying\u2014means I am particularly aware of the rare privilege that such an opportunity presents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday marked the eighth birthday of On the archival trail of William Macintosh. So many things have changed since I began documenting my work on Macintosh that it feels like I&#8217;ve been chipping away at this project for much, much longer. The work has always been a pleasure, and is a constant source of [&hellip;]<\/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-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}