{"id":23,"date":"2007-05-30T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-05-30T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T03:20:00","slug":"unsung-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Unsung Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sorry I haven&#8217;t been around here much lately. It&#8217;s getting down to the wire for this damn York address and I&#8217;ve gotta shave half an hour off of it.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>(It&#8217;s tough &mdash; I mean, <i><i>you<\/i><\/i> try argueing that pedophiles and suicide bombers will be the ones setting the ground rules for any post-singularity society.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>In less than 30 minutes.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>You gotta take it in small steps.)<span style=\"\">  <\/span>Also, I&#8217;m trying to find an agent, and I gotta do it quick; I&#8217;ve only got street cred as long as I&#8217;m a &#8220;finalist&#8221; for these awards.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>The moment they go to someone else, I&#8217;m just an also-ran.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>(And in the course of that search, might I just point out that <a href=\"http:\/\/deannahoak.livejournal.com\/\">Deanna Hoak<\/a> is absurdly gracious, classy, and helpful to people she barely even knows.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>A few more like her would make a complete hash of the rules of Darwinian natural selection.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Oh, and while I&#8217;m in hat-tipping mode:<span style=\"\">  <\/span>I usually e-mail thankyous to those who&#8217;ve contributed to the Niblet Memorial Kibble Fund, but sometimes I can&#8217;t get through.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>So if John Packer from Australia, and\/or Terry Doyle from the UK happen by,<span style=\"\">  <\/span>thank you both for <i><i>your<\/i><\/i> generosity.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>And your e-mail addresses are broken.<span style=\"\">  <\/span>For months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry I haven&#8217;t been around here much lately. It&#8217;s getting down to the wire for this damn York address and I&#8217;ve gotta shave half an hour off of it. (It&#8217;s tough &mdash; I mean, you try argueing that pedophiles and suicide bombers will be the ones setting the ground rules for any post-singularity society. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}