{"id":1596,"date":"2012-06-04T20:23:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T02:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2012-06-04T20:23:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T02:23:35","slug":"home-from-a-kon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Home from A-Kon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a wild and woolly weekend, mostly great fun&#8230;until today&#8217;s trip home, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/Pedestrian-killed-by-train-in-Fort-Worth-157011425.html\">this happened<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes,\u00a0 that&#8217;s the train I was on.\u00a0\u00a0 A very sad situation (still not sure if it was accident or suicide.)\u00a0\u00a0 And I got home to discover that a friend had committed suicide last night.<\/p>\n<p>So some of the bloom was off the rose, so to speak&#8230;.but the A-Kon memories are all good.\u00a0\u00a0 I had time with old friends, made some new ones, and signed a few books.\u00a0\u00a0 First load of laundry is done, and I&#8217;m leaving the other for tomorrow morning.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I went into the convention with my three pairs of hand-knit socks, and by judicious washing (I took my own towel for drying them, so they wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;bleed&#8221; on hotel white towels)\u00a0 got through just fine.<\/p>\n<p>Back to work on various fronts tomorrow&#8230;starting with a necessary visit to a government bureaucracy and then straight into my editor&#8217;s notes on <em>Limits of Power<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a wild and woolly weekend, mostly great fun&#8230;until today&#8217;s trip home, when this happened.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes,\u00a0 that&#8217;s the train I was on.\u00a0\u00a0 A very sad situation (still not sure if it was accident or suicide.)\u00a0\u00a0 And I got home to discover that a friend had committed suicide last night. So some of the bloom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}