{"id":3396,"date":"2004-10-01T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-02T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:37:15","slug":"excellent-phantom-panel-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2004\/10\/01\/excellent-phantom-panel-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Excellent Phantom Panel Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 2PM at Archon, I was scheduled to sit on the &#8220;Can&#8217;t Stop the Music&#8221; panel.  As is usually the case with these events, all the preparation I was given was the title.  You sit in front of the audience and wing it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, on this panel, the three of us, Vic Milan, Doug Ferguson, and myself were competing for audience with an autographing by Alan Dean Foster, a panel with Ben Bova on it, and another titled, &#8220;Knickers and Knockers &#8211; An Overview of Underwear&#8221;.  Needless to say our audience was very small.  The smallest.  No one came.<\/p>\n<p>However, that didn&#8217;t stop us.  The three of us carried on a wide ranging discussion of the historically significant bad movie whose name was used for our panel, on-line commerce, e-publishing, and a variety of other like issues.  I enjoyed it immensely.  Aren&#8217;t you sorry you missed it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 2PM at Archon, I was scheduled to sit on the &#8220;Can&#8217;t Stop the Music&#8221; panel. As is usually the case with these events, all the preparation I was given was the title. You sit in front of the audience and wing it. Well, on this panel, the three of us, Vic Milan, Doug&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2004\/10\/01\/excellent-phantom-panel-discussion\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Excellent Phantom Panel Discussion<\/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":[196],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-SM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396"}],"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=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3397,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/3397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}