{"id":456,"date":"2020-07-30T22:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=456"},"modified":"2020-07-31T08:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:22:51","slug":"at-conzealand-the-78th-world-science-fiction-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/07\/30\/at-conzealand-the-78th-world-science-fiction-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"At CoNZealand: the 78th World Science Fiction Convention!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Normalnoident\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ConZealand-banner_sm.jpg\" alt=\"ConZealand banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">Here we are, in beautiful New Zealand for worldcon! Except, of course, we\u2019re not really, because coronavirus. We&#8217;re sitting in our dining room in front of our computers. Virtually, though, we are here! Havin\u2019 a good time\u2014especially when we can navigate the befuddlingly complicated login procedure to get where we\u2019re going. (The price, I guess of running a con on multiple virtual platforms.) We\u2019re learning a new app: Discord. We\u2019re also learning to radically convert time-zones. New Zealand time is 16 hours ahead of us, which means that most of the time, they\u2019re already in tomorrow, while we\u2019re still in today. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">Today (my time) was the second day of programming, and I have already been on two of the three panels that I\u2019m participating in, via Zoom. The first was \u201cStaying Closer to Home: Science Fiction in the Solar System,\u201d which I know a little bit about. Just enough to get me into trouble. It was a good panel! The second was \u201cWriters on Writing: The Plot&#8217;s the Thing,\u201d which was about, um, plot and character and motivation and story structure, and all that good stuff. It, too, was a good panel! I\u2019ve got one more\u2014on Saturday, America-time\u2014called \u201cGhosts in the Ships: Sentient Ships in SF and Fantasy.\u201d I hope that one will be good, too. And I\u2019d better do a little research on the subject before showtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">Wish you could all be here in New Zealand with us! (If you&#8217;re sitting at home on your computer, you&#8217;re already halfway there.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, in beautiful New Zealand for worldcon! Except, of course, we\u2019re not really, because coronavirus. We&#8217;re sitting in our dining room in front of our computers. Virtually, though, we are here! Havin\u2019 a good time\u2014especially when we can navigate the befuddlingly complicated login procedure to get where we\u2019re going. (The price, I guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}