{"id":13042,"date":"2008-07-18T01:57:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T05:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13042"},"modified":"2014-01-18T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T13:50:02","slug":"readercon-2008-and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/18\/readercon-2008-and-so-it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Readercon 2008: And so it begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is far too late in the evening (or is that far too early in the morning?) for me to have anything coherent to say about Readercon 2008, other than that I&#8217;m having fun as usual, and that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157606233752185\/\" target=\"_blank\">my photos are beginning to appear online<\/a> as if by magic.  <\/p>\n<p>But before I crash, here I am with John Joseph Adams, perspicacious editor of <i>The Living End<\/i>,  who wisely chose to reprint my Stoker finalist  &#8220;Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man&#8221; in his upcoming zombie anthology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Readercon2008JohnJosephAdams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Readercon2008JohnJosephAdams-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Readercon2008JohnJosephAdams\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Readercon2008JohnJosephAdams-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Readercon2008JohnJosephAdams.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A report on Thursday&#8217;s doings will be posted tomorrow when (and if) coherency returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is far too late in the evening (or is that far too early in the morning?) for me to have anything coherent to say about Readercon 2008, other than that I&#8217;m having fun as usual, and that my photos are beginning to appear online as if by magic. But before I crash, here I [&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":[15],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-readercon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042","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=13042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13044,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions\/13044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}