{"id":87,"date":"2008-01-11T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=87"},"modified":"2008-01-11T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T18:15:00","slug":"here-we-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Here We Go Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, looky here. Blindsight<\/span> is on the preliminary Nebula ballot<\/a>. I don’t really know much about the mechanics of that process — how “preliminary” turns into “beta”, when “beta” turns into “final” — beyond the fact that the award seems a bit too in-house<\/s> inbred for John Clute’s<\/s> many people’s liking. I’m not a member of SFWA; worse, I’m one of those (how did it go again?) “pixel-stained technopeasant wretches” whose forays into the Creative Commons so pissed off certain elements in its administration. So even if these folks know who I am, I rather suspect they may not like me very much. <\/p>\n

I’m actually kinda surprised that I even got this far; obviously somebody<\/span> must like me (or at least, like my book), and I thank them for pitching on Blindsight<\/span>‘s behalf. If I find out who you are, I’ll buy you a beer next time we run into each other.<\/p>\n

But still. Like this is ever gonna happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, looky here. Blindsight is on the preliminary Nebula ballot. I don’t really know much about the mechanics of that process — how “preliminary” turns into “beta”, when “beta” turns into “final” — beyond the fact that the award seems a bit too in-house inbred for John Clute’s many people’s liking. I’m not a member […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}