{"id":8099,"date":"2023-03-23T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2023-03-20T16:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T22:15:06","slug":"8099","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2023\/03\/23\/8099\/","title":{"rendered":"Once upon a time there was a worldcon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The night I won two Hugos.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like last week.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a million years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8101\" src=\"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2-hugo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"527\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Silverberg was toastmaster (he was a great toastmaster, the best worldcon ever had)\u00a0 and handed me the rockets.\u00a0 I have forgotten every word he said.\u00a0\u00a0 I have forgotten every word <em>I<\/em> said, for that matter.\u00a0\u00a0 (I wonder if anyone was filming the ceremony.\u00a0\u00a0 These days all the Hugo ceremonies are videotaped, but in the days of yore, that did not always happen).\u00a0\u00a0 My whole night is a blur&#8230; but I do remember how happy I was&#8230; and the friends I shared the night with.\u00a0\u00a0 Phyllis Eisenstein, Mary Mertens, Ed Bryant&#8230; so many more&#8230; and of course, Gardner Dozois, who squirted whipped cream in my hair and formally threw me out of the Hugo Losers&#8217; Party.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time there was a worldcon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mary Hopkin ~ Those Were The Days (1968)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GielMXWQlbw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night I won two Hugos. Seems like last week. Seems like a million years ago. Robert Silverberg was toastmaster (he was a great toastmaster, the best worldcon ever had)\u00a0 and handed me the rockets.\u00a0 I have forgotten every word he said.\u00a0\u00a0 I have forgotten every word I said, for that matter.\u00a0\u00a0 (I wonder if [&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":[1],"tags":[89,58,40],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099"}],"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=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}