{"id":553,"date":"2016-02-22T12:53:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2017-06-29T00:58:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T00:58:42","slug":"see-you-in-roanoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2016\/02\/22\/see-you-in-roanoke\/","title":{"rendered":"See You In Roanoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next weekend I will be heading off to MystiCon, in Roanoke, Virginia, where I&#8217;ll be a Guest of Honor.  A new con for me, and a new part of the country (it&#8217;s been on my schedule since 2013).<\/p>\n<p>They have a website at <a href=\"http:\/\/mysticon-va.com\/\">http:\/\/mysticon-va.com\/<\/a> with a list of all the other guests &#8212; but, alas, it says there that they are sold out, so if you&#8217;re not signed up, you may be out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to spending some time with old friends there, and to making some new ones.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, I need a good con just about now.  I am tired and I am stressed, and I am so so so sick of the toxic rancor that more and more seems to characterize the internet.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; let&#8217;s raise a few glasses and have a few laughs at MystiCon, and try to remember why we love science fiction, fandom, and each other. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next weekend I will be heading off to MystiCon, in Roanoke, Virginia, where I&#8217;ll be a Guest of Honor. A new con for me, and a new part of the country (it&#8217;s been on my schedule since 2013). They have a website at http:\/\/mysticon-va.com\/ with a list of all the other guests &#8212; but, alas, [&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":[165,89,76],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553"}],"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=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}