{"id":17109,"date":"2009-05-25T20:27:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T00:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17109"},"modified":"2014-12-26T22:08:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T03:08:46","slug":"not-fade-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/25\/not-fade-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Not fade away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/02\/04\/d-c-yesterday-denver-tomorrow\/\">Early last year<\/a>, I shared a photograph of me in front of the White House, a visit which occurred while I was attending the 1974 World Science Fiction Convention in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s me on the far right, in the company of Carl Gafford, Paul Levitz, and Steve Gilary. When I first posted this image, I bemoaned the fact that no  crisp, clear original print existed of this moment, just a fading photocopy I&#8217;d made while on staff at Marvel Comics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DCWorldconPhotocopy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DCWorldconPhotocopy-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"DCWorldconPhotocopy\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DCWorldconPhotocopy-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DCWorldconPhotocopy.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I learned today that I was wrong.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While  looking at a few new images  Paul Kupperberg added to his facebook page, I decided to browse his older photos, and found this:<\/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>Click through to see my 19-year-old unfaded self in all his hirsute glory, thanks to Paul, who  snapped this photo nearly 35 years ago, and decided to hang onto it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early last year, I shared a photograph of me in front of the White House, a visit which occurred while I was attending the 1974 World Science Fiction Convention in Washington, D.C. That&#8217;s me on the far right, in the company of Carl Gafford, Paul Levitz, and Steve Gilary. When I first posted this image, [&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":[546],"class_list":["post-17109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paul-kupperberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109","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=17109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17111,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17109\/revisions\/17111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}