{"id":131,"date":"2017-04-26T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/04\/26\/california-dreamin\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T12:32:20","slug":"california-dreamin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/04\/26\/california-dreamin\/","title":{"rendered":"California Dreamin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am off to California tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>First stop will be Long Beach, for Stokercon, the annual gathering of the Horror Writers Association and the presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards.  (That&#8217;s the one that looks like a creepy house, as opposed to the new World Fantasy Award, which looks like a creepy tree).  This year&#8217;s Stokercon will be on the Queen Mary, which I last visited for a Nebula Awards banquet in&#8230; ohmigod, could it really have been 1996?  Where do the years go?  (Thinking back, that must have been a few months before A GAME OF THRONES was published.  Little did I dream how much my life was about to change).<\/p>\n<p>I love old ocean liners (modern cruise ships not so much), so banqueting with my brothers and sisters in horror on the Queen should be a hoot and a half.<\/p>\n<p>After that, it&#8217;s down to San Diego for a fundraising event for Clarion.  I&#8217;ll be having a conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson.   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/459057_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Alas, I&#8217;m told the event is already sold out.  <\/p>\n<p>And, sorry, no, I will not be signing&#8230; just talking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am off to California tomorrow. First stop will be Long Beach, for Stokercon, the annual gathering of the Horror Writers Association and the presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards. (That&#8217;s the one that looks like a creepy house, as opposed to the new World Fantasy Award, which looks like a creepy tree). This year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,29,30],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}