{"id":2003,"date":"2011-05-17T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2011-05-17T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:10:00","slug":"an-afternoon-at-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"An afternoon at Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/div>\n

Just another day in the great Long Room of Trinity’s famous library. Except for once it wasn’t being “borrowed” without credit by George Lucas.<\/p>\n

Having earlier stopped in at \u00c1ras an Uachtar\u00e1in to be greeted by the President of Ireland, and having then laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, Queen Elizabeth II went to Trinity College. She had a look at a facsimile of the Book of Kells,<\/em> and then met with various folks associated with Trinity — including one Professor Doctor Sir Terry Pratchett, his stalwart assistant Rob Wilkins, and the erudite Colin Smythe, writer-publisher extraordinaire.<\/p>\n

Flash video is embedded below. For those of you who have trouble accessing it through the embed, use this link<\/a> to access\/download the .mpg file directly. We’ll also have an iPhone friendly .mp4 file up later.<\/p>\n

We have a few stills as well, but when installed on this page they broke the page formatting, so we’ve moved them here.<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

[flv:http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/media\/Terry_Rob_Colin_And_The_Queen.flv 640 480]<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just another day in the great Long Room of Trinity’s famous library. Except for once it wasn’t being “borrowed” without credit by George Lucas. Having earlier stopped in at \u00c1ras…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,26,28,35,39,43,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-europe","category-featured-3","category-history","category-ireland","category-media","category-tv-in-general"],"yoast_head":"\nAn afternoon at Trinity - Out of Ambit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An afternoon at Trinity - Out of Ambit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just another day in the great Long Room of Trinity’s famous library. Except for once it wasn’t being “borrowed” without credit by George Lucas. Having earlier stopped in at \u00c1ras…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Out of Ambit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-05-17T20:10:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/images\/trinity.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Diane Duane\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dduane\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"Article\",\"BlogPosting\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Diane Duane\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ff54e1fb35d68dee5a5bf83f6070e2d1\"},\"headline\":\"An afternoon at Trinity\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-17T20:10:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":183,\"commentCount\":8,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/images\\\/trinity.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Current events\",\"Europe\",\"Featured\",\"History\",\"Ireland\",\"Media\",\"TV in general\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/\",\"name\":\"An afternoon at Trinity - Out of Ambit\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/images\\\/trinity.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-17T20:10:00+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/17\\\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/images\\\/trinity.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/images\\\/trinity.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/\",\"name\":\"Out of Ambit\",\"description\":\"Diane Duane's weblog\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8\",\"name\":\"Diane Duane\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":400,\"caption\":\"Diane Duane\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/04\\\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/dduane\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ff54e1fb35d68dee5a5bf83f6070e2d1\",\"name\":\"Diane Duane\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d306027f6d44c1213f53b6912f027d6bde1b1c5c73748571ab976afc999e917e?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d306027f6d44c1213f53b6912f027d6bde1b1c5c73748571ab976afc999e917e?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d306027f6d44c1213f53b6912f027d6bde1b1c5c73748571ab976afc999e917e?s=96&d=mm&r=pg\",\"caption\":\"Diane Duane\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dianeduane.com\\\/outofambit\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"An afternoon at Trinity - Out of Ambit","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"An afternoon at Trinity - Out of Ambit","og_description":"Just another day in the great Long Room of Trinity’s famous library. Except for once it wasn’t being “borrowed” without credit by George Lucas. Having earlier stopped in at \u00c1ras…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/","og_site_name":"Out of Ambit","article_published_time":"2011-05-17T20:10:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/images\/trinity.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Diane Duane","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@dduane","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":["Article","BlogPosting"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/"},"author":{"name":"Diane Duane","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#\/schema\/person\/ff54e1fb35d68dee5a5bf83f6070e2d1"},"headline":"An afternoon at Trinity","datePublished":"2011-05-17T20:10:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/"},"wordCount":183,"commentCount":8,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#\/schema\/person\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/images\/trinity.jpg","articleSection":["Current events","Europe","Featured","History","Ireland","Media","TV in general"],"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/","url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/","name":"An afternoon at Trinity - Out of Ambit","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/images\/trinity.jpg","datePublished":"2011-05-17T20:10:00+00:00","inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/05\/17\/an-afternoon-at-trinity\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/images\/trinity.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/images\/trinity.jpg"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/","name":"Out of Ambit","description":"Diane Duane's weblog","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#\/schema\/person\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#\/schema\/person\/c95a368813271f614d9104b74dfd83d8","name":"Diane Duane","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg","url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg","width":400,"height":400,"caption":"Diane Duane"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/DD_avatar_2016_bg.jpg"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/dduane"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/#\/schema\/person\/ff54e1fb35d68dee5a5bf83f6070e2d1","name":"Diane Duane","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d306027f6d44c1213f53b6912f027d6bde1b1c5c73748571ab976afc999e917e?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d306027f6d44c1213f53b6912f027d6bde1b1c5c73748571ab976afc999e917e?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d306027f6d44c1213f53b6912f027d6bde1b1c5c73748571ab976afc999e917e?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","caption":"Diane Duane"},"url":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}