{"id":2614,"date":"2011-04-19T21:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T01:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2614"},"modified":"2011-04-19T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T01:40:21","slug":"matthew-johnson-reads-at-ad-astra-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/19\/matthew-johnson-reads-at-ad-astra-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Johnson reads at Ad Astra 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so busy since Ad Astra two weekends back that with this post I&#8217;m breaking one of my rules. What rule is that? I call it Edelman&#8217;s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting. Which means &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I consider it insufficient  to wait until getting home to write up how much fun  I&#8217;m having. All convention reporting must occur while that convention is actually occurring. It&#8217;s not enough that I have a wonderful time&#8212;YOU have to KNOW that I&#8217;m having a wonderful time and be miserable because you&#8217;re not there having a wonderful time, too. You&#8217;ve got to be agonizing,  thinking, &#8220;If only  I jumped on a plane RIGHT NOW, I could be at the con ALSO having a wonderful time! Why aren&#8217;t I?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, and only then, can I be truly joyful. But&#8212;the day job has demands I can&#8217;t ignore, and so you&#8217;ve had to wait nine days for this particular piece of video.<\/p>\n<p>Ad Astra paired up writers to share an hour, and on April 10, 2011, after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2011\/04\/13\/my-ad-astra-2011-reading\/\">I read my short story   \u201cThe Only Wish Ever to Come True,\u201d<\/a>  Matthew Johnson read &#8220;Holdfast.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>And here he is!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9mCiIuyaXy4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;ll be continuing to break Edelman\u2019s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting in the coming weeks, because I still have a few more clips to share &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been so busy since Ad Astra two weekends back that with this post I&#8217;m breaking one of my rules. What rule is that? I call it Edelman&#8217;s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting. Which means &#8230; I consider it insufficient to wait until getting home to write up how much fun I&#8217;m having. All convention [&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],"class_list":["post-2614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ad-astra","tag-conventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614","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=2614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}