{"id":7466,"date":"2012-09-06T23:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T03:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2012-09-06T23:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T03:09:56","slug":"chicon7-8-days-7-nights-8-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/06\/chicon7-8-days-7-nights-8-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicon7: 8 days, 7 nights, 8 photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got back home from my Chicago Worldcon<\/a> trip after midnight last night\u2014or should I say, this morning\u2014and while I’d love to write up right now how much fun I had, both at the con and elsewhere (like at Alinea<\/a>!), it’s unlikely I’ll be able to compose my thoughts until the weekend. <\/p>\n

After all, I did<\/em> return from my trip to something like 5,000 emails!<\/p>\n

So let these eight photos, one for each day I was away, stand in for the posts to come.<\/p>\n

Wednesday<\/strong>
\nA note left on our table at the start of Next restaurant’s Sicilian meal<\/p>\n

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Thursday<\/strong>
\nHanging with David Kyle—who was at the 1939 Worldcon!<\/p>\n

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Friday<\/strong>
\nTalking early comic cons with George R.R. Martin in the middle of Lake Michigan<\/p>\n

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Saturday<\/strong>
\nEncountering a reminder that I am a Guest of Honor<\/p>\n

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Sunday<\/strong>
\nMy Kaffeeklatch cupcakes<\/p>\n

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Monday<\/strong>
\nA $150 cup of tea (not drunk by me) at David Burke’s Primehouse<\/p>\n

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Tuesday<\/strong>
\nThe loneliest Nature Valley bar in the universe<\/p>\n

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Wednesday<\/strong>
\nA restroom threat<\/p>\n

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Check back later, for more will be revealed …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got back home from my Chicago Worldcon trip after midnight last night\u2014or should I say, this morning\u2014and while I’d love to write up right now how much fun I had, both at the con and elsewhere (like at Alinea!), it’s unlikely I’ll be able to compose my thoughts until the weekend. After all, I […]<\/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":[228,49,229,56,16],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-kyle","tag-food","tag-george-r-r-martin","tag-science-fiction","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","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=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}