{"id":4434,"date":"2017-11-08T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2018-01-05T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T20:02:36","slug":"old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2017\/11\/08\/old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first SF convention (as opposed to a comicon) I ever attended was the 1971 Disclave in Washington, D.C. The first person I met at the con was Gardner Dozois, who was working the registration table when I walked in. When he wasn&#8217;t volunteering at cons, Gardner was the slushpile reader for GALAXY&#8230; and the very same guy who had fished my story &#8220;The Hero&#8221; out of said slush pile several months previously, leading to my first professional short.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Gargy was the first friend I made in fandom, and my first editor as well.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s still a fan, he&#8217;s still a pro, he&#8217;s still the best editor out there&#8230; and in the decades that followed, he&#8217;s been my editor, my collaborator, and my partner in crime, the guy who founded the Hugo Losers Party with me in 1976&#8230; before going on to win, like, thirty-seven Hugos in a row.<\/p>\n<p>I had the chance to catch up with him last week in New York City, and I&#8217;m pleased to report we&#8217;re both going strong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/481298_900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/481298_900.jpg 675w, https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/481298_900-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Friends like the Great Gargoo are the reason I love fandom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first SF convention (as opposed to a comicon) I ever attended was the 1971 Disclave in Washington, D.C. The first person I met at the con was Gardner Dozois, who was working the registration table when I walked in. When he wasn&#8217;t volunteering at cons, Gardner was the slushpile reader for GALAXY&#8230; and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,183],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434"}],"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=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4436,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/4436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}