{"id":2815,"date":"2007-12-06T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2007-12-06T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:07:00","slug":"2815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2815","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s why I don’t think I’ll be attending World Fantasy<\/a> next year after all: basically, it’s the money.<\/p>\n

It’s $125 to register, plus $50 if I want to attend the awards banquet. Then the hotel is $165 a night, which for three nights translates into roughly $500. Assuming I can even get into<\/i> the convention hotel at this point. Just getting a passport would cost me $97. And the flight…well, I may be able to score a break here, if I can make use of my father’s Delta Sky Miles. I don’t know what sort of discount, exactly, I could swing…but even if somehow my flight is effectively, miraculously, $0…I’m still out of pocket close to $800. Plus transportation to and from the airport, incidentals, and anything I buy while in Calgary. I can fiddle with that number a little — stay only two nights, skip the banquet, etc. — but not enough to really bring it down to something I can easily afford. Especially not if I plan to attend this year’s Readercon<\/a> in July and schedule that trip to Los Angeles<\/a> I’ve been planning in September.<\/p>\n

So while I’ve been seriously tempted by the idea, I just don’t see how I can afford it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s why I don’t think I’ll be attending World Fantasy next year after all: basically, it’s the money. It’s $125 to register, plus $50 if I want to attend the awards banquet. Then the hotel is $165 a night, which for three nights translates into roughly $500. Assuming I can even get into the convention … 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-2815","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\/2815"}],"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=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}