{"id":15599,"date":"2014-08-23T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15599"},"modified":"2014-08-23T14:10:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:10:30","slug":"celebrating-a-40th-anniversary-with-f-brett-cox-at-loncon3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/23\/celebrating-a-40th-anniversary-with-f-brett-cox-at-loncon3\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating a 40th anniversary with F. Brett Cox at Loncon3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve told you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2014\/08\/05\/its-the-40-anniversary-of-my-first-worldcon\/\">before<\/a>, Loncon3 was the 40th anniversary of my first Worldcon, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/32nd_World_Science_Fiction_Convention\">Discon II<\/a>. But I wasn&#8217;t alone in that&#8212;for Discon II was also the first Worldcon for F. Brett Cox.<\/p>\n<p>Brett and I celebrated that anniversary with lunch at AL Masar Lebanese restaurant, after which Jeannie Beckwith commemorated the moment with a photo. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ScottEdelmanBretttCox19742014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/ScottEdelmanBretttCox19742014-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanBretttCox19742014\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only a single  photo exists of each of us from that 1974 gathering, and I&#8217;ve cropped them together with the most recent pic to show what four decades can do to a fan.<\/p>\n<p>Where did the <del datetime=\"2014-08-23T16:34:15+00:00\">hair<\/del> time go?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check back in 2054 to see what another 40 years does to the two of us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve told you before, Loncon3 was the 40th anniversary of my first Worldcon, which was Discon II. But I wasn&#8217;t alone in that&#8212;for Discon II was also the first Worldcon for F. Brett Cox. Brett and I celebrated that anniversary with lunch at AL Masar Lebanese restaurant, after which Jeannie Beckwith commemorated the moment [&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":[255,525,16],"class_list":["post-15599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-f-brett-cox","tag-loncon3","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599","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=15599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15613,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15599\/revisions\/15613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}