{"id":19658,"date":"2015-06-08T22:07:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T02:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=19658"},"modified":"2015-06-08T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T02:17:11","slug":"i-am-groot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/08\/i-am-groot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I &#8230; am &#8230; Groot!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just arrived home from the Nebula Awards weekend in Chicago, which was&#8212;because I was around friends old and new&#8212;about so much more than only the Nebula Awards. I&#8217;ll tell you of what mischief I got up to once I recover, but for now &#8230; hey, how about that banquet?<\/p>\n<p>I had an unexpected role to play Saturday night, because I was chosen to accept the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation on behalf of the creators of <em>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em>. And my acceptance speech was somewhat &#8230; unconventional.<\/p>\n<p>If you weren&#8217;t one of those in the room that night, or watching the lifestream at home, you can see what I mean below, starting at 56:34. Make sure you hang on after I&#8217;m done to see  how Toastmaster Nick Offerman interprets what I&#8217;ve said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/embed\/recorded\/63216100?v=3&amp;wmode=direct\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: 0px none transparent;\">    <\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\" style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Tis a good thing to be Groot. I&#8217;ve always wanted to branch out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just arrived home from the Nebula Awards weekend in Chicago, which was&#8212;because I was around friends old and new&#8212;about so much more than only the Nebula Awards. I&#8217;ll tell you of what mischief I got up to once I recover, but for now &#8230; hey, how about that banquet? I had an unexpected role [&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":[14,664],"class_list":["post-19658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nebula-awards","tag-nick-offerman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658","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=19658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19670,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19658\/revisions\/19670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}