{"id":12916,"date":"2008-06-09T06:09:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T10:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2014-01-15T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:37:32","slug":"howe-did-he-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/09\/howe-did-he-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Howe did he do it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream this morning in which I was wandering an unidentified convention, though it had to be a Worldcon somewhere due to the size of the crowds.  I passed a room in which people were glued to a marathon of episodes from the  <i>Swamp Thing<\/i>  TV show, and then came upon the con suite, which contained lots of neon and  included its own pizza oven.<\/p>\n<p>I began to snap pictures of the attendees there.  Most of them where unfamiliar faces, but I was being a completist about it.  When I went to photograph at the table at which Connie Willis sat, I heard a disconcerting popping sound, and looked at my camera, only to see that the flash was sticking out like the bouncing head from a sprung jack-in-the-box.  <i>Oh, great,<\/i> I thought,  <i>the con is just beginning, and here I am without a working camera.<\/i>  <\/p>\n<p>Then, from out of nowhere, who should pop up but Bob Howe, who proceeds to pull out many small tools (it looks to me as if he travels with a lock-picking kit), examine the camera, and tell me exactly what to do to fix it.  <\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;d like to know is&#151;just when and why did my subconscious decide that  <lj user=\"bobhowe\"> was its symbol of competency?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a dream this morning in which I was wandering an unidentified convention, though it had to be a Worldcon somewhere due to the size of the crowds. I passed a room in which people were glued to a marathon of episodes from the Swamp Thing TV show, and then came upon the con [&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":[152,140,12],"class_list":["post-12916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bob-howe","tag-connie-willis","tag-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916","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=12916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12917,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12916\/revisions\/12917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}