{"id":319,"date":"2009-03-03T13:58:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T21:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=319"},"modified":"2009-03-04T05:43:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T13:43:51","slug":"flotsam-in-the-ego-surf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Flotsam in the Ego Surf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, right.\u00a0 As <a title=\"Fanshawe Appearance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.londonarts.ca\/Default.aspx?Select=EventDetails&amp;Event=gJ5wU1yptRj5tKGW1TyVEw%3D%3D\">this online announcement<\/a> reminds me,\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be in London, Ontario Thursday of next week to do a reading at Fanshawe College (which is doubtless a great place to hang out even if its name is a bit more reminiscent of my ex-mother&#8217;s than I would like).\u00a0 If you&#8217;re in the neighborhood, drop by.\u00a0 There&#8217;s bound to be a bar somewhere around there.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea I was being presented by the &#8220;Letters and Arts Society&#8221; until I saw the ad, though.\u00a0 Sounds prestigious.\u00a0 I should probably buy myself some pants.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <em>Blindsight <\/em>appears to be the current front-runner in an ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/katedra.nast.pl\/artykul\/3886\/Fantastyka-2008-plebiscyt\/\">poll<\/a> of Poles for &#8220;best foreign sf\/fantasy\/horror release for 2008&#8221; (you&#8217;ll have to click the &#8220;Zobacz wyniki&#8221; button to see the current standings).\u00a0 That&#8217;s nice.\u00a0 It reminds me of the front-runner status <em>Blindsight<\/em> had back in online poles for the 2007 Hugos.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s always an honor to be nominated.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve got to get ready for this weird-ass bondage workshop I&#8217;ve been roped into attending.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s hoping the hot water&#8217;s back on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, right.\u00a0 As this online announcement reminds me,\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be in London, Ontario Thursday of next week to do a reading at Fanshawe College (which is doubtless a great place to hang out even if its name is a bit more reminiscent of my ex-mother&#8217;s than I would like).\u00a0 If you&#8217;re in the neighborhood, drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-interface","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","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=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}