{"id":17576,"date":"2009-10-30T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T12:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17576"},"modified":"2015-01-07T20:34:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T01:34:57","slug":"world-fantasy-2009-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/30\/world-fantasy-2009-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"World Fantasy 2009: Thursday Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at the Fairmont and immediately had a powerful sense of deja vu, as this was the same hotel I spent much of the San Jose Worldcon partying at back in 2002.  I missed yesterday&#8217;s opening ceremonies, and showed up too late to register, but I was immediately in a boisterous maelstrom of friends. No name badge was needed with this crowd.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up going to dinner almost immediately with John Kessel, Paul Park, Kij Johnson, Leslie Howle, and Neile Graham. We ended up at a joint called Don Pedro&#8217;s, where I had a big bowl of goat soup&#8212;but only because they were all out of the fried pork skin!<\/p>\n<p>Here I am on one side of the table with John and Kij:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JohnKesselKijJohnsonScottEdelman2009WFC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JohnKesselKijJohnsonScottEdelman2009WFC-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"JohnKesselKijJohnsonScottEdelman2009WFC\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JohnKesselKijJohnsonScottEdelman2009WFC-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/JohnKesselKijJohnsonScottEdelman2009WFC.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see the rest of my few initial World Fantasy photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157622693405732\/\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>I partied much too late&#8212;at least for this East Coast body&#038;#8212and so by the time I crashed my internal clock was telling me it was 3:00 a.m.  I&#8217;m sure I missed most of the fun. I look forward to being a more well-adjusted partier tonight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I arrived at the Fairmont and immediately had a powerful sense of deja vu, as this was the same hotel I spent much of the San Jose Worldcon partying at back in 2002. I missed yesterday&#8217;s opening ceremonies, and showed up too late to register, but I was immediately in a boisterous maelstrom of friends. [&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":[58,95,430,11],"class_list":["post-17576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions","tag-john-kessel","tag-kij-johnson","tag-world-fantasy-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17576","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=17576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17578,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17576\/revisions\/17578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}