{"id":1447,"date":"2007-05-26T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T08:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/26\/welcome-to-bittercon\/"},"modified":"2007-05-26T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T08:04:02","slug":"welcome-to-bittercon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/26\/welcome-to-bittercon\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Bittercon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a popular science fiction convention going on this weekend in Madiscon, WI. Of course, not everyone can make it to these things, so some people in LiveJournal Land have put together <a href=\"http:\/\/jlundberg.livejournal.com\/481771.html\">BitterCon<\/a>, and online event for those unable to attend WisCon.<\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s jumped right in, providing space for a bunch of panels in the form of comment threads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.livejournal.com\/230460.html\">The Napoleonic Wars in SF\/F<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.livejournal.com\/230760.html\">Risky Narrative Strategies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.livejournal.com\/231033.html\">Levels and Limits of Metafictionality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.livejournal.com\/231313.html\">Thieves Guilds and Other Criminal Societies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.livejournal.com\/231636.html\">Wish Fulfillment<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(She&#8217;s got a convenient <a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.livejournal.com\/tag\/bittercon\">BitterCon tag<\/a> as well, in case she adds more stuff later&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>So, if you find yourself pining for detailed discussion of topics in science fiction and fantasy literature, go on over to Kate&#8217;s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a popular science fiction convention going on this weekend in Madiscon, WI. Of course, not everyone can make it to these things, so some people in LiveJournal Land have put together BitterCon, and online event for those unable to attend WisCon. Kate&#8217;s jumped right in, providing space for a bunch of panels in the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/26\/welcome-to-bittercon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to Bittercon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}