{"id":6247,"date":"2020-06-19T08:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2020-06-12T19:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T01:38:25","slug":"the-amazing-john-picacio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2020\/06\/19\/the-amazing-john-picacio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing John Picacio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SFWA held its Nebula Awards ceremonies last week, and John Picacio, artist extraordinaire, was one of the winners of this year&#8217;s Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award&#8230; not for his art, but for his contributions to the science fiction and fantasy community.<\/p>\n<p>I had the honor of presenting the award to John.\u00a0\u00a0 Well, that is to say, I had the virtual honor of presenting a virtual award to the virtual Picacio.<\/p>\n<p>For all of you who could not be there &#8212; which is everyone, thanks to our friend Covid-19 &#8212; here is what I had to say:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1YV6qoTdD_3MZEQe3ulSNNiJrgT1RfSuM\/view?usp=drivesdk\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1YV6qoTdD_3MZEQe3ulSNNiJrgT1RfSuM\/view?usp=drivesdk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations once again, John.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Very well deserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFWA held its Nebula Awards ceremonies last week, and John Picacio, artist extraordinaire, was one of the winners of this year&#8217;s Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award&#8230; not for his art, but for his contributions to the science fiction and fantasy community. I had the honor of presenting the award to John.\u00a0\u00a0 Well, that is to say, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[10,29,30],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6261,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}