{"id":2516,"date":"2007-04-21T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2007-04-21T12:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T20:51:00","slug":"2516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2516","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clivebarker.info\/newsfantasycon2.html\" title=\"2006 FantasyCon Speech\">Clive Barker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m going to stop &#8212; I just want to say how proud I am and how excited I am because as I get older and as I make more work and step back from the work and step back from the work of my friends and my associates whose skills are still expanding and still growing, I see that we are a force that will actually, from a distance, be seen as &#8216;defining&#8217; in some way. I believe there will be people who look back, perhaps at this night and say, &#8216;Look who was there &#8212; &#8216; and run off the names and it will be clear that those names together did not represent an island &#8212; fuck an <i>island<\/i> &#8212; they were a huge force, they were a <i>continent<\/i> called the imagination&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/\">Neil Gaiman<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clive Barker: I&#8217;m going to stop &#8212; I just want to say how proud I am and how excited I am because as I get older and as I make more work and step back from the work and step back from the work of my friends and my associates whose skills are still expanding &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2516\">Read more<\/a><\/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":[238],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}