{"id":12387,"date":"2007-12-30T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12387"},"modified":"2014-01-09T23:08:24","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T04:08:24","slug":"convention-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/30\/convention-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamt last night that I was wandering a science-fiction convention, and it must have been a big one, because all of the usual suspects were there.  As I walked back from a lunch with Jack Dann, along the way we bumped into Connie Willis, John Kessel, Adam-Troy Castro, Melissa Anna Singer, Sheila Williams, and many others.  There was lots of loud conversation and much picture-taking.<\/p>\n<p>The only odd thing about the dream was that when I ran into Marc Scott Zicree, he didn&#8217;t  appear as his usual clean-cut self. Instead, he had long, wild hair, as if he hadn&#8217;t cut it in years, and he was dressed like a stereotypical &#8217;60s hippie.  We joked about how much he had changed since I&#8217;d last seen him, and I asked him where he&#8217;d stashed his VW van with flowers painted on the side.<\/p>\n<p>Now why did my subconscious do that to a nice guy like Marc?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamt last night that I was wandering a science-fiction convention, and it must have been a big one, because all of the usual suspects were there. As I walked back from a lunch with Jack Dann, along the way we bumped into Connie Willis, John Kessel, Adam-Troy Castro, Melissa Anna Singer, Sheila Williams, and [&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":[12],"class_list":["post-12387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387","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=12387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12388,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12387\/revisions\/12388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}