{"id":10925,"date":"2013-08-25T23:23:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T03:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=10925"},"modified":"2013-08-25T23:23:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T03:23:51","slug":"theres-been-a-last-minute-change-to-my-worldcon-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/25\/theres-been-a-last-minute-change-to-my-worldcon-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s been a last-minute change to my Worldcon schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been informed that my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarcon3.org\/\">LoneStarCon3<\/a> panel on &#8220;Stories from the Bullpen&#8221; has been cancelled&#8212;so if you were looking forward to hearing a bunch of comics dinosaurs blather on about the good old days Friday, you&#8217;re out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t worry&#8212;you can still catch me at the following events!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Stroll with the Stars<\/strong><br \/>\nFriday, August 30, 09:00-10:00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kaffeeklatsch<\/strong><br \/>\nFriday, August 30, 13:00-14:00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Autographing<\/strong><br \/>\nSaturday, August 31, 14:00-15:00<br \/>\n<em>with Sanford Allen, Grant Carrington, and  Rick Wilber<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Playing in Other People&#8217;s Sandboxes: Writing Comics that aren&#8217;t Your Own<\/strong><br \/>\nSunday, September 1, 15:00-16:00<br \/>\nWhether you&#8217;re writing Spider-Man, Jonah Hex, the Incredibles, or Fruit Ninja, you never get to really own these characters. But they sure are fun to play with! Hear some stories about what it&#8217;s like dealing with today&#8217;s corporate overlords.<br \/>\n<em>with Alan J. Porter, Paul Benjamin, and Howard Tayler<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arouse Is Not the Past Tense of Arise<\/strong><br \/>\nMonday, September 2, 12:00-13:00<br \/>\nWhy do so many new writers have problems with grammar? How important is grammar? Has it lost relevancy in communicating with some portion of the reading public?<br \/>\n<em>with Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Ginjer Buchanan, and Alberto Chimal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading<\/strong><br \/>\nMonday, September 2, 14:30 &#8211; 15:00<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just been informed that my LoneStarCon3 panel on &#8220;Stories from the Bullpen&#8221; has been cancelled&#8212;so if you were looking forward to hearing a bunch of comics dinosaurs blather on about the good old days Friday, you&#8217;re out of luck. But don&#8217;t worry&#8212;you can still catch me at the following events! Stroll with the Stars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-10925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}