{"id":16828,"date":"2009-01-18T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16828"},"modified":"2014-12-11T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:10:36","slug":"robert-silverberg-is-a-lousy-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/18\/robert-silverberg-is-a-lousy-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Silverberg is a lousy driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And as you can see, in this picture Bob forwarded to me last week,  he has the nerve to laugh about it!  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care if the guy <i>is<\/i> a Grand Master&#151;isn&#8217;t it time he had his license revoked?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RobertSilverbergPhiladelphia2001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RobertSilverbergPhiladelphia2001-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"RobertSilverbergPhiladelphia2001\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RobertSilverbergPhiladelphia2001-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/RobertSilverbergPhiladelphia2001.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And just to show that my memory isn&#8217;t what it once was, I had thought this accident had taken place at a publisher party at the 2001 Philadelphia Worldcon, but Bob assures me that he had instead mowed me down a year later at a party held at San Jose&#8217;s Tech Museum of Innovation during the 2002 Worldcon.<\/p>\n<p>My first Worldcon was 1974, so they&#8217;re all starting to blend together, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And as you can see, in this picture Bob forwarded to me last week, he has the nerve to laugh about it! I don&#8217;t care if the guy is a Grand Master&#151;isn&#8217;t it time he had his license revoked? And just to show that my memory isn&#8217;t what it once was, I had thought this [&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-16828","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\/16828","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=16828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16830,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions\/16830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}