{"id":17237,"date":"2009-07-09T11:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17237"},"modified":"2014-12-29T16:59:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T21:59:57","slug":"readercon-getting-there-is-half-the-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/09\/readercon-getting-there-is-half-the-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Readercon: Getting there is half the fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long, long day, because my journey to Readercon began at 3:00 a.m., when for some reason I woke up half an hour before the alarm had been set to go off. I didn&#8217;t mind it that much, not then, because it allowed for a more leisurely escape, but believe me, I&#8217;m minding it now, as I&#8217;m way past ready to crash.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m much too exhausted to fill you in on any details of the trip so far, so I&#8217;ll simply leave you with this photo of me, Michael Dirda, Michael Bishop, Paul Di Filippo, and Howard Waldrop pausing to worship at Lovecraft&#8217;s grave as we head, along with the unseen Deborah Newton and Jeri Bishop, from Paul and Deb&#8217;s Providence home to the Burlington Marriott for the 20th Readercon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LovecraftGrave2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LovecraftGrave2009-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"LovecraftGrave2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LovecraftGrave2009-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/LovecraftGrave2009.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to wait until tomorrow for anything more detailed than that, and just be happy with this image, and with a few others <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157621205061868\/\">over at flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Until tomorrow, then &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long, long day, because my journey to Readercon began at 3:00 a.m., when for some reason I woke up half an hour before the alarm had been set to go off. I didn&#8217;t mind it that much, not then, because it allowed for a more leisurely escape, but believe me, I&#8217;m minding [&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":[58,118,15],"class_list":["post-17237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-readercon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237","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=17237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17239,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions\/17239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}