{"id":2719,"date":"2011-04-27T21:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T01:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2011-05-06T21:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T01:55:05","slug":"why-im-really-heading-to-austin-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/27\/why-im-really-heading-to-austin-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m REALLY heading to Austin this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As those of you who were at the World Fantasy Con with me in Columbus last year already know, during my travels these days I try to follow in the footsteps of  Adam Richman of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/TV_Shows\/Man_V_Food\">Man v. Food<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here I am, for example, at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thethurmancafe.com\/\"> The Thurman Cafe<\/a>, where I had the best burger of my life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Thurmans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Thurmans-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Thurmans\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Thurmans-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Thurmans.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early tomorrow morning, I&#8217;ll be heading to Austin for this year&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/whc2011.org\/\"> World Horror Convention<\/a>. Well, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m telling people. Those of you who know be best are aware I&#8217;ll really be there to compete in the Man v. Food triathlon.<\/p>\n<p>For those who&#8217;ve never seen the show, I&#8217;ve embedded the Austin episode below so you can see where I&#8217;ll be dragging some of you this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pl4Vbjj_vR8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/khrh3jH8YeI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So&#8212;who&#8217;s ready for a road trip?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As those of you who were at the World Fantasy Con with me in Columbus last year already know, during my travels these days I try to follow in the footsteps of Adam Richman of Man v. Food. Here I am, for example, at The Thurman Cafe, where I had the best burger of my [&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":[58,72,10,82],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions","tag-man-v-food","tag-video","tag-world-horror-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","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=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}