{"id":14196,"date":"2008-10-09T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14196"},"modified":"2014-03-19T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T20:32:44","slug":"my-capclave-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/09\/my-capclave-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"My Capclave schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capclave for its opening night next weekend, since I&#8217;ll be heading off to Manhattan the next morning to attend a memorial  for Tom Disch.  <\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re in Rockville, Maryland, on Friday the 17th, this is where you&#8217;ll be able to find me pontificating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>5:00pm: Eureka, Battlestars, and other new television<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>8:00pm: SF Generation gap<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Writers used to believe that most of their audience had read the classics and so had a shared background and that understood Asimov&#8217;s robots, Wells&#8217; time travel, Zelazny&#8217;s alternate universes etc. Does that common background still hold? And if so, from where&#151;television? Movies? How do you write for audiences, some of whom understand the basic tropes, while others are new?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope to see some of you there!<\/p>\n<p>That being said, I&#8217;m having trouble finding an affordable hotel room in New York for the night of the 18th.  My usual haunts are all booked, and I can&#8217;t find anything else under $325 a night.  Is that the going rate these days?<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know of anything less expensive out there, or do I just have to bite the bullet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capclave for its opening night next weekend, since I&#8217;ll be heading off to Manhattan the next morning to attend a memorial for Tom Disch. But if you&#8217;re in Rockville, Maryland, on Friday the 17th, this is where you&#8217;ll be able to find me pontificating: 5:00pm: Eureka, Battlestars, and other new television 8:00pm: SF Generation gap [&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":[58],"class_list":["post-14196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196","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=14196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14197,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14196\/revisions\/14197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}