{"id":4298,"date":"2017-09-01T16:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T16:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2017-10-03T21:08:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T21:08:14","slug":"worldcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/09\/01\/worldcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldcon!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Labor Day weekend.  <b><i> Time for WORLDCON!! <\/i><\/b> I&#8217;m so excited, I&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait.  Worldcon was over weeks ago.  Finncon, Finnishcon, Helsinkicon, I remember (no, I will not call it &#8220;Worldcon 75,&#8221; I am not a number, I am a free fan).  And a splendid con it was.<\/p>\n<p>Even if it was held on the wrong weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Worldcon belongs on Labor Day weekend.   And always will.   (After all, did Tom Disch slam my generation of writers as the &#8220;Early August Bunch?&#8221;  No, he did not).<\/p>\n<p>Dragoncon, you say?  Dragoncon belongs back in July, where it was born.<\/p>\n<p>Worldcon should move back to Labor Day and stay there, regardless of whatever other johnny-come-lately cons move to the same weekend.  Worldon has dibs! <\/p>\n<p>The Space Geezer has spoken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Labor Day weekend. Time for WORLDCON!! I&#8217;m so excited, I&#8230; Oh, wait. Worldcon was over weeks ago. Finncon, Finnishcon, Helsinkicon, I remember (no, I will not call it &#8220;Worldcon 75,&#8221; I am not a number, I am a free fan). And a splendid con it was. Even if it was held on the wrong [&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":[40],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298"}],"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=4298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4298\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}