{"id":17481,"date":"2013-02-25T06:38:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T11:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=17481"},"modified":"2013-02-25T06:38:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T11:38:29","slug":"your-favorite-cons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/02\/25\/your-favorite-cons\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Favorite Cons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, not\u00a0<em>convicts<\/em>. Please stop sending confessed serial killers your underwear.<\/p>\n<p>Conventions! Or, for a variant,\u00a0<em>conferences<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m noodling new appearances in the next couple years (scheduled this year: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigestconference.com\/ehome\/index.php?eventid=51706&amp;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.writersdigestconference.com\/ehome\/index.php?eventid=51706&amp;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Writer&#8217;s Digest East<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.balticon.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.balticon.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Balticon<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarcon3.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarcon3.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Worldcon in San Antonio<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, and <a title=\"http:\/\/www.genrecon.com.au\" href=\"http:\/\/www.genrecon.com.au\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Genrecon<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) and I wanted to know which conferences and conventions you dig and attend? What are they and why? Would they support a bearded raconteur such as myself? Is there a bar? GODDAMNIT I SAID, IS THERE A BAR?<\/p>\n<p>Ahem, sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Please, if you&#8217;re so inclined, deposit your nuggets of convention\/conference wisdom into the comments below. Your help in this matter is\u00a0<em>much-appreciated<\/em>. *takes a bow*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, no, not\u00a0convicts. Please stop sending confessed serial killers your underwear. Conventions! Or, for a variant,\u00a0conferences. I&#8217;m noodling new appearances in the next couple years (scheduled this year: Writer&#8217;s Digest East, Balticon, Worldcon in San Antonio, and Genrecon) and I wanted to know which conferences and conventions you dig and attend? What are they and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-4xX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17486,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17481\/revisions\/17486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}