{"id":2570,"date":"2011-04-13T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T12:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2011-04-13T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T13:48:02","slug":"my-ad-astra-2011-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/13\/my-ad-astra-2011-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ad Astra 2011 reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 10 at Ad Astra 2011, I read my short story &#8220;The Only Wish Ever to Come True,&#8221; which had originally been published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-only-wish-ever-to-come-true\/\"><em>Talebones<\/em><\/a> magazine. I shared the hour with Matthew Johnson, seen sitting next to me, waiting his turn to read. I&#8217;ll upload his performance in a separate video.<\/p>\n<p>I chose that story because Matthew had indicated that he&#8217;d be reading a fantasy, so I thought I should, too, so that the flavors would blend together well for any audience. Also, I&#8217;d only read &#8220;The Only Wish Ever to Come True&#8221; once before, at a Readercon, and it was unlikely anyone attending Ad Astra would have heard it before. Don&#8217;t want to be repetitive!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I recorded the hour so that what happens in Toronto doesn&#8217;t have to stay in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dIRNJIuHc7g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Please note that for some reason I&#8217;ve yet to figure out, the first few seconds of the last couple of videos I&#8217;ve uploaded are wonky, but that clears up quickly before the story begins. But if anyone has any suggestions as to why this is happening, please let me know!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 10 at Ad Astra 2011, I read my short story &#8220;The Only Wish Ever to Come True,&#8221; which had originally been published in Talebones magazine. I shared the hour with Matthew Johnson, seen sitting next to me, waiting his turn to read. I&#8217;ll upload his performance in a separate video. I chose that [&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":[57,58,29,10],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ad-astra","tag-conventions","tag-my-writing","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","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=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}