{"id":12964,"date":"2008-06-22T08:42:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T12:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12964"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T20:48:02","slug":"the-ubiquitous-eric-m-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/22\/the-ubiquitous-eric-m-van\/","title":{"rendered":"The ubiquitous Eric M. Van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamt this morning that I was at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readercon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Readercon<\/a>, walking down a hallway toward the hotel restaurant.  I have no idea whether it was time for lunch or dinner.  When I stepped through the entranceway, all of the tables were occupied, and the joint was jumping. I surveyed the room in search of a table of friendly faces into which I could insert myself.<\/p>\n<p>As I checked out the restaurant, I realized that I knew everyone there, which wasn&#8217;t so unusual, at least not for a Readercon.  But what <i>was<\/i> unusual was that I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Van\" target=\"_blank\">Eric M. Van<\/a> sitting at one table as part of a group, and then I also saw Eric M. Van sitting at the next table with a different party, and then at the next table as well!  <\/p>\n<p>And the next, and the next, and the next &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there wasn&#8217;t a table without one of him.  There were dozens of Eric M. Vans scattered throughout the restaurant, each one taking part in a lively conversation. <\/p>\n<p><i>How did he do that?<\/i>, I wondered.  In my dream state, I didn&#8217;t think this impossible.  I was just &#8230; curious.<\/p>\n<p>As I stood there, unable to decide at which table I wanted to try to squeeze in, I woke.  I guess I won&#8217;t get to have a meal at Readercon until Readercon itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamt this morning that I was at Readercon, walking down a hallway toward the hotel restaurant. I have no idea whether it was time for lunch or dinner. When I stepped through the entranceway, all of the tables were occupied, and the joint was jumping. I surveyed the room in search of a table [&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":[12,444],"class_list":["post-12964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dreams","tag-eric-m-van"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964","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=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12965,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}