{"id":2082,"date":"2023-08-20T11:06:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T11:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2024-01-23T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T08:54:48","slug":"fantasy-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/?p=2082","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Con"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s getting closer to the end of the month and after our family holiday in September, I will be going to the British Fantasy Society&#8217;s Fantasy Con event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lots of panels, stalls, and more importantly books. It&#8217;s a bit daunting as I am off down on my own but from the looks of it, I think I will be ok. Full of friendly people that seem very inclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have put money aside, especially for this, I am hoping to come away with some nice signed books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, they recently announced some of the writers doing talks there and including Tad Williams and Alastair Reynolds. I have books from each so it&#8217;s now a dilemma of whether I take a load of books with me to see if I can get them signed. lol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t really want to take half my library. It&#8217;s not been cheap with the accommodation, travel and the cost of the tickets but I am hoping I will really enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting closer to the end of the month and after our family holiday in September, I will be going to the British Fantasy Society&#8217;s Fantasy Con event. Lots of panels, stalls, and more importantly books. It&#8217;s a bit daunting as I am off down on my own but from the looks of it, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5,221,220,4],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-2","tag-blog","tag-fantasy-con","tag-fantasycon","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/procrastinationstation.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}