{"id":4281,"date":"2011-10-16T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T01:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=4281"},"modified":"2011-10-16T21:56:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T01:56:47","slug":"terry-pratchett-surprises-capclave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/16\/terry-pratchett-surprises-capclave\/","title":{"rendered":"Terry Pratchett surprises Capclave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wonderful weekend at Capclave. I did a reading and took part in two well-received panels, moderating one of them. I was originally going to participate in a third panel until a certain British knight decided to pop by.<\/p>\n<p>To the surprise of us all, Sir Terry Pratchett made a last-minute visit to the con, as the final appearance in his U.S. tour for <em>Snuff<\/em>. In fact, his appearance was <em>so<\/em> final I believe he and his assistant Rob Wilkins headed off to the airport (and the UK) immediately after their noon Q&#038;A.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned, it was the highlight of the con. I&#8217;d give up any number of opportunities to pontificate in exchange for a chance to hear Pratchett. And as those of you who know me already know, without me having to say it&#8212;I was in the front row with my Flip balanced on one knee.<\/p>\n<p>Here, for those who couldn&#8217;t make it to Capclave&#8212;and for those who could, but would like to relive the lovely hour&#8212;is video from the event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E7CJRIi8kZ0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wonderful weekend at Capclave. I did a reading and took part in two well-received panels, moderating one of them. I was originally going to participate in a third panel until a certain British knight decided to pop by. To the surprise of us all, Sir Terry Pratchett made a last-minute visit to [&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":[104,109,10],"class_list":["post-4281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-capclave","tag-terry-pratchett","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281","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=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}