{"id":3122,"date":"2006-08-12T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:33:21","slug":"armadillocon-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/12\/armadillocon-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Armadillocon 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/IMG_0070.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/IMG_0070.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t have to travel across the country for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/dillo\/\">science fiction convention<\/a>, since it&#8217;s in Austin (that little town south of Hutto).  It also has the great attraction of having a lot of my favorite people in attendance.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/1600\/IMG_0072.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3989\/528\/320\/IMG_0072.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The first people I saw, before I&#8217;d even reached the registration desk, were Scott Cupp and <a href=\"http:\/\/billcrider.blogspot.com\/\">Bill Crider<\/a>.  Scott was busily re-assembling his book collection.  Shortly before I arrived, his massive display of rare and collectable books had collapsed as the table on which it was stacked had given way.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as we were all three writers, the first topic of converstation was our latest blog postings.<\/p>\n<p>(My apologies for the blurry photos.  It was night, indoors and I&#8217;d turned the flash off.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have to travel across the country for this science fiction convention, since it&#8217;s in Austin (that little town south of Hutto). It also has the great attraction of having a lot of my favorite people in attendance.The first people I saw, before I&#8217;d even reached the registration desk, were Scott Cupp and Bill&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2006\/08\/12\/armadillocon-28\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Armadillocon 28<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[396,197,81],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-Om","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3123,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}