{"id":6594,"date":"2012-06-13T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T00:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2012-06-13T20:15:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T00:15:22","slug":"1st-meeting-of-the-sfwa-ukulele-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/13\/1st-meeting-of-the-sfwa-ukulele-army\/","title":{"rendered":"1st meeting of the SFWA Ukulele Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When our fearless leader<a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\"> John Scalzi<\/a> threatened to bring his ukulele to SFWA&#8217;s Nebula Awards weekend last month, I knew I had to do the same. (Bring, not threaten, that is.)  And unindicted co-conspirator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbartell.us\/\">David Bartell<\/a>, another science fictional uker, brought his along as well.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday afternoon, in the lull between the end of programming and the beginning of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2012\/06\/03\/welcome-to-the-2012-nebula-awards-ceremony\/\">banquet<\/a>, we found a quiet spot to jam. And luckily, <a href=\"http:\/\/lizat.blogspot.com\/\">Liza Groen Trombi<\/a> happened by to snap this picture, which should appear in the next issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.locusmag.com\/\"><em>Locus<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Uke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Uke-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Uke\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Uke-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Uke.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know what we all look like, those smiling faces belong to (from left to right), me, John, and Dave. (And don&#8217;t worry&#8212;I put on a tie, too, before the festivities began.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that by the next incarnation of the science fiction merry-go-round, a few more of you secret SF ukulele players  (you know who you are) will decide to  join us.<\/p>\n<p>A show of hands&#8212;which of you will be bringing your ukes along to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicon.org\/\"> Chicago Worldcon<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When our fearless leader John Scalzi threatened to bring his ukulele to SFWA&#8217;s Nebula Awards weekend last month, I knew I had to do the same. (Bring, not threaten, that is.) And unindicted co-conspirator David Bartell, another science fictional uker, brought his along as well. Saturday afternoon, in the lull between the end of programming [&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":[204,14,141,175],"class_list":["post-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-scalzi","tag-nebula-awards","tag-sfwa","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","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=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}