{"id":15408,"date":"2014-08-05T12:07:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15408"},"modified":"2014-08-05T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:07:21","slug":"its-the-40-anniversary-of-my-first-worldcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/05\/its-the-40-anniversary-of-my-first-worldcon\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the 40 anniversary of my first Worldcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be arriving in London a week from today to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/loncon3.org\">Loncon 3<\/a>, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, and it occurred to me that this will be the 40th anniversary of my <em>first<\/em> Worldcon, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/32nd_World_Science_Fiction_Convention\">Discon II<\/a>. And since the con&#8217;s on the other side of an ocean, and some there might know me by name only, I figured I&#8217;d share a photo from that long-ago time in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"1974Worldcon\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1974Worldcon.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s me on the right, taking a break from the con and sitting by the White House fence with three friends some of you may recognize.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re looking for me at the ExCel convention center, well, now you know what I look like.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t changed, have I?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be arriving in London a week from today to attend Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, and it occurred to me that this will be the 40th anniversary of my first Worldcon, Discon II. And since the con&#8217;s on the other side of an ocean, and some there might know me by [&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":[58,16],"class_list":["post-15408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408","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=15408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15478,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15408\/revisions\/15478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}