{"id":13136,"date":"2008-08-06T18:49:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T22:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13136"},"modified":"2014-01-20T17:51:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T22:51:58","slug":"denvention-3-first-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/06\/denvention-3-first-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Denvention 3: First photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only Wednesday, and Denvention 3 has barely begun, but I&#8217;ve already started uploading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157606585314145\/\" target=\"_blank\">my first pictures<\/a>.  The way I figure it, what&#8217;s the point of having fun if I can&#8217;t make at least a few people out there kick themselves because  they can&#8217;t be  here with us?<\/p>\n<p>I meant to only stop in my hotel room for a few minutes, but then a tornado siren went off, and people have reported sighting  funnel clouds.  So the <i>real<\/i> reason you&#8217;re getting these photos so quickly is that I thought it might be wiser to stay here for a little while longer instead of rushing right over to the SFWA suite.  (That weather report is to make a few other people out there <i>happy<\/i> that they can&#8217;t be with us.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2008WorldconEdelmanSilverberg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2008WorldconEdelmanSilverberg-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"2008WorldconEdelmanSilverberg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2008WorldconEdelmanSilverberg-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/2008WorldconEdelmanSilverberg.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here I am with Robert Silverberg, in a  photo  taken during the <i>hour<\/i> I waited to register (from 10:17 to 11:17), which is the longest it&#8217;s ever taken me to get my badge at a Worldcon.  I&#8217;m hoping that isn&#8217;t an omen.<\/p>\n<p>A fuller report will follow when (and if)  tonight&#8217;s partying ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only Wednesday, and Denvention 3 has barely begun, but I&#8217;ve already started uploading my first pictures. The way I figure it, what&#8217;s the point of having fun if I can&#8217;t make at least a few people out there kick themselves because they can&#8217;t be here with us? I meant to only stop in my [&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":[392,16],"class_list":["post-13136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-robert-silverberg","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136","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=13136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13138,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136\/revisions\/13138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}