{"id":17779,"date":"2009-12-28T20:52:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17779"},"modified":"2015-01-10T21:11:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T02:11:50","slug":"white-elephants-on-parade-at-the-wgfh-holiday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/28\/white-elephants-on-parade-at-the-wgfh-holiday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"White Elephants on parade at the WGFH Holiday Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Writers Groups From Hell held its annual white elephant holiday gift  exchange party yesterday. I was one of the founding members of the critiquing group back in 1989, when it didn&#8217;t yet have a name, and I had to drop out when <i>Science Fiction Age<\/i> took over my life. But each year, all members, both current and past, gather together to unload unwanted, unneeded, and unnecessary gifts on each other.<\/p>\n<p>Over good food and drink, I learned things about my friends I never knew before&#8212;such as Sharon Patry&#8217;s misspent youth artificially inseminating rabbits. I&#8217;d share other unsavory anecdotes, but then I&#8217;d have to mark this entry NSFW, and we don&#8217;t want to go there, do we?<\/p>\n<p>Here I am with Mindy Klasky, while Fred Gooding looks on from the background.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanMindyKlasky2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanMindyKlasky2009-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanMindyKlasky2009\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanMindyKlasky2009-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanMindyKlasky2009.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see who else turned up, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157622959293781\/\">my flickr set<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And to see how well (or poorly) we&#8217;re aging, here are the holiday photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157603367446059\/\">2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Writers Groups From Hell held its annual white elephant holiday gift exchange party yesterday. I was one of the founding members of the critiquing group back in 1989, when it didn&#8217;t yet have a name, and I had to drop out when Science Fiction Age took over my life. But each year, all members, [&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":[602],"class_list":["post-17779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mindy-klasky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779","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=17779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17781,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17779\/revisions\/17781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}