{"id":581,"date":"2020-09-05T13:29:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T21:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=581"},"modified":"2020-09-05T13:29:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T21:29:28","slug":"dragon-con-greeting-in-virtual-space-with-imp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/09\/05\/dragon-con-greeting-in-virtual-space-with-imp\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Con Greeting in Virtual Space\u2014with Imp!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16670\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/DragonCon-greeting-with-imp.jpg\" alt=\"Author with imp\" width=\"946\" height=\"684\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dragon Con Virtual<\/a> is underway this weekend! As a scheduled program participant for the torpedoed-by-pandemic real-life con, I was asked to shoot a two-minute video greeting about why I love science fiction and Dragon Con. It\u2019s probably up on their site somewhere, but blast if I know where, so I\u2019m posting it here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">In the course of shooting the video, an imp appeared in the corner of my screen during one take. Where\u2019d she come from?? It wasn\u2019t my best take, but the imp was too charming not to keep. So here\u2019s the Outtake\u2014with Imp:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oY6WWvkOtZY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">Or directly on YouTube: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oY6WWvkOtZY\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/oY6WWvkOtZY<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">If you want to see my actual best take, here it is (but no imp, alas):<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L9R4RRL1w5A\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/L9R4RRL1w5A<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon Con Virtual is underway this weekend! As a scheduled program participant for the torpedoed-by-pandemic real-life con, I was asked to shoot a two-minute video greeting about why I love science fiction and Dragon Con. It\u2019s probably up on their site somewhere, but blast if I know where, so I\u2019m posting it here. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-sciencefiction","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}