{"id":185274,"date":"2011-08-16T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/16\/oh-its-worldcon-tomorrow-and-i-am-not-there\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T23:19:00","slug":"oh-its-worldcon-tomorrow-and-i-am-not-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/08\/16\/oh-its-worldcon-tomorrow-and-i-am-not-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, It&#8217;s Worldcon Tomorrow, and I Am Not There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fact makes me smile.<\/p>\n<p>It only took me 20 years, but I realized that I don&#8217;t like Science Fiction conventions.<\/p>\n<p>This fact probably explains the massive benders that I used to have at said conventions.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed running them, but was never into the convention scene.<\/p>\n<p>As to running them, never again.&nbsp; It was way too destructive to my life.<\/p>\n<p>There were some good bits, hearing Harry &#8220;Hal Clement&#8221; Stubbs talk about being a thousand meters away from a nuclear blast was a hoot.<\/p>\n<p>I miss Harry, he knew his sh%$, and he didn&#8217;t back down on it, but he was remarkably gentle when he told you that you did not know what you were talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fact makes me smile. It only took me 20 years, but I realized that I don&#8217;t like Science Fiction conventions. This fact probably explains the massive benders that I used to have at said conventions. I enjoyed running them, but was never into the convention scene. As to running them, never again.&nbsp; It was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175,1064,1171,1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-media","category-science-fiction","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}