{"id":12690,"date":"2008-04-01T10:23:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12690"},"modified":"2014-01-14T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:27:03","slug":"my-own-private-stoker-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/01\/my-own-private-stoker-award\/","title":{"rendered":"My own private Stoker Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, so contrary to what I’d said earlier, I guess there’ll be one final Stoker-related post …<\/p>\n

Two things happened in the hours after the Stoker banquet to remind me of what truly matters.<\/p>\n

First, immediately following my loss to Gary Braunbeck, I received the following e-mail on my BlackBerry from my parents in Florida. They’d somehow managed to figure out how to watch the live web cast, and so sent me these words of commiseration:<\/p>\n

We managed to stay up and watch the awards. We love you and you’ll always be a winner to us.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Later, after I returned from post-banquet partying, I was chatting with Irene, who had gone back to the room once the ceremony was over, and I noticed a small box on my pillow. <\/p>\n

“What’s this?” I asked.<\/p>\n

“I figured that whatever happened,” she said, “you still deserve to go home with a trophy.”<\/p>\n

Inside the box was this strange little robotic creature, my own private Stoker trophy.<\/p>\n

\"IreneStokerAward\"<\/a><\/p>\n

These two moments put the entire night in perspective. Sure, I’d like one of those trophies someday, but parents and a wife like that are much harder to come by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, so contrary to what I’d said earlier, I guess there’ll be one final Stoker-related post … Two things happened in the hours after the Stoker banquet to remind me of what truly matters. First, immediately following my loss to Gary Braunbeck, I received the following e-mail on my BlackBerry from my parents in Florida. […]<\/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":[73,30],"class_list":["post-12690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-irene-vartanoff","tag-stoker-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690","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=12690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12693,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12690\/revisions\/12693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}