{"id":2787,"date":"2007-11-15T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T02:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2007-11-15T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T02:20:00","slug":"2787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2787","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“I’m not the kind of man who tends to socialize
I seem to lean on old familiar ways…” – Paul Simon<\/i><\/p>\n

I’ve been toying with the idea of attending next year’s World Fantasy Convention<\/a> in Calgary (just as I toyed with the idea of attending last year’s in Austin and this year’s in Saratoga). A lot of what I’ve read online makes it sound like great fun. Of course, it also makes it sound a lot more like a reunion<\/i>, something better suited to past attendees and World Fantasy Award nominees. It’s not as if there’s a sign on the door that reads, “Newbies not welcome,” but still, I’ve been thinking it might be better to start with something different, and smaller — like maybe Readercon<\/a> in July, for instance. <\/p>\n

(I’m also slowly trying to put together a trip to Los Angeles<\/a> with friends for next fall, so that could eat into my already limited vacation time and disposable income.)<\/p>\n

And then I read something like this<\/a>, and I think: he’s<\/i> never attended before, and he<\/i> had fun… So I don’t know. <\/p>\n

How many months does it take to get a passport?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I’m not the kind of man who tends to socializeI seem to lean on old familiar ways…” – Paul Simon I’ve been toying with the idea of attending next year’s World Fantasy Convention in Calgary (just as I toyed with the idea of attending last year’s in Austin and this year’s in Saratoga). A lot … 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-2787","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\/2787"}],"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=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}