{"id":4692,"date":"2026-06-29T20:45:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:45:50","slug":"much-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2026\/06\/29\/much-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Much news"},"content":{"rendered":"

My much news is two excellent things and one very bad thing. Let me start with the very bad.<\/p>\n

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What I thought was me turns out to be antisemitism targeted at so many Australians openly admitting to being Jewish. The Royal Commission is hearing submissions this week and they are uniformly shocking. You can make up your own minds and develop your own opinions from here: Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion<\/a><\/p>\n

To cheer you up, the first good piece of news is a new fan publication celebrating Mel Brooks’ 100th birthday. I play a (very) small part in this: https:\/\/www.journeyplanet.org\/uploads\/1\/5\/7\/1\/15715530\/journey_planet_-__issue_95_-_mel_brooks.pdf<\/p>\n

And the last bit of news, which is such a relief… I have finished every single aspect of my PhD. All things have been approved. The university even has the library copy of my thesis. I am ABD and will probably receive the PhD itself in September. From September, please feel free to make Dr Dr Dr jokes, though, for the record, I still prefer ‘Gillian’ over ‘Dr Polack.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My much news is two excellent things and one very bad thing. Let me start with the very bad.   What I thought was me turns out to be antisemitism targeted at so many Australians openly admitting to being Jewish. The Royal Commission is hearing submissions this week and they are uniformly shocking. You can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4693,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions\/4693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}