{"id":2728,"date":"2011-05-02T23:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T03:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2728"},"modified":"2011-05-02T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T03:12:51","slug":"oh-world-horror-con-how-i-have-failed-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/02\/oh-world-horror-con-how-i-have-failed-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, World Horror Con, how I have failed you!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long stressed that the most important thing about convention reporting is that it be done while the convention is still going on. In fact, I&#8217;ve codified that in Edelman&#8217;s Schadenfreude  Rule of Convention Reporting, which states that it isn&#8217;t enough for <em>me<\/em> to be having a good time, <em>you<\/em> must <em>know<\/em> I&#8217;m having that good time and regret not being there to have it with me.<\/p>\n<p>Updating statuses on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/scottedelman\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scott.edelman?ref=name\">Facebook<\/a> doesn&#8217;t feel sufficient in terms of making you miserable enough to make me happy. I need to post photos, videos, and blog entries. But as far as this year&#8217;s World Horror is concerned, I have failed. <\/p>\n<p>I wrote a blog post about getting to the con, but nothing about the con itself, because I was that busy and tired. The half dozen videos I shot haven&#8217;t made it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/scottedelman?feature=mhum\">YouTube<\/a> yet. And I only just now, 24 hours after returning home, got my pics up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8293436@N04\/sets\/72157626633921788\/\">Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Go check them out.  And remember, as you can see below&#8212;everything is bigger in Texas!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Donut.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Donut-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Donut\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Donut-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Donut.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;ll be more World Horror commentary later&#8212;but first I think I need to recover from World Horror!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long stressed that the most important thing about convention reporting is that it be done while the convention is still going on. In fact, I&#8217;ve codified that in Edelman&#8217;s Schadenfreude Rule of Convention Reporting, which states that it isn&#8217;t enough for me to be having a good time, you must know I&#8217;m having [&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":[58,67,82],"class_list":["post-2728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions","tag-horror","tag-world-horror-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728","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=2728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}