{"id":29234,"date":"2022-11-30T20:16:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=29234"},"modified":"2022-11-30T20:16:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T01:16:11","slug":"a-2018-chessiecon-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/30\/a-2018-chessiecon-flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"A 2018 Chessiecon flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I attended Chessiecon in  Timonium, Maryland in 2018 &#8212; where in addition to taking part in programing, I recorded conversations  with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2018\/11\/30\/join-jo-walton-for-a-seafood-lunch-on-episode-83-of-eating-the-fantastic\/\">Jo Walton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2018\/12\/14\/slurp-down-thai-beef-noodle-soup-with-stephen-kozeniewski-in-episode-84-of-eating-the-fantastic\/\">Stephen Kozeniewski<\/a> for episodes of Eating the Fantastic &#8212; I didn&#8217;t stay at the official con hotel. Instead of the Red Lion, I used miles to get a room next door at the Red Roof Inn. And I haven&#8217;t thought of that hotel since.<\/p>\n<p>Until earlier this evening, while watching the first episode of the HBO series <em>We Own This City<\/em>, during which a drug bust went down on the same side of hotel where I was staying!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/RedRoofInnWeOwnThisCityEpisode1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/RedRoofInnWeOwnThisCityEpisode1-300x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-29235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/RedRoofInnWeOwnThisCityEpisode1-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/RedRoofInnWeOwnThisCityEpisode1-1024x513.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/RedRoofInnWeOwnThisCityEpisode1-768x385.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/RedRoofInnWeOwnThisCityEpisode1-1536x770.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/RedRoofInnWeOwnThisCityEpisode1-2048x1026.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the screen grab above, you can see a SWAT team on the second floor approaching the suspect. I no longer remember my exact room number, only its general location, but in my memory, I was in the middle right of that first floor, maybe even staying in the room by which you can see the housekeeping cart parked.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to seeing whether the remaining five episodes take me back to any other Baltimore geography out of my past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I attended Chessiecon in Timonium, Maryland in 2018 &#8212; where in addition to taking part in programing, I recorded conversations with Jo Walton and Stephen Kozeniewski for episodes of Eating the Fantastic &#8212; I didn&#8217;t stay at the official con hotel. Instead of the Red Lion, I used miles to get a room next [&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":[773,966],"class_list":["post-29234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chessiecon","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234","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=29234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29242,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29234\/revisions\/29242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}