{"id":2377,"date":"2017-01-12T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2017-01-11T22:12:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T03:12:14","slug":"illogicon-sff-in-the-research-triangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/illogicon-sff-in-the-research-triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"illogiCon: SF&#038;F in the Research Triangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/illogicon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/scienceFiction.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"imagecaption\" style=\"font-size: 50%;\"><em>(Professor Schrodington, the illogiCon mascot.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/illogicon.org\/\">illogiCon<\/a> science fiction and fantasy convention starts tomorrow! I&#8217;m going &#8212; are you?\u00a0If so, stop in\u00a0and see me &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 p.m. in the Cameron Room &#8212; Nerd Music Unplugged, with Madison &#8220;Metricula&#8221; Roberts<\/li>\n<li>9 p.m. in the Smith Room &#8212; &#8220;Hell Week&#8221; Panel, a look at the Space Shuttle disasters<\/li>\n<li>10 p.m. in the Crescent Room &#8212; Drop-in Music and Filk Circle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saturday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>11 a.m. in the Cameron Room &#8212; &#8220;Famous First Words&#8221; Panel, a look at story &amp; novel beginnings<\/li>\n<li>12 p.m. in the Cameron Room &#8212; &#8220;Famous Last Words&#8221; Panel, a look at story &amp; novel endings<\/li>\n<li>1 p.m. in the Crescent Room &#8212; Reading &#8230; possibly something from my forthcoming novel?<\/li>\n<li>2 p.m. in the Reynolds Room &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baen.com\/\">Baen Books<\/a> Traveling Road Show<\/li>\n<li>4 p.m. in the Smith Room &#8212; &#8220;Live Action Slush&#8221; Panel, in which we consider the story openings of brave volunteers<\/li>\n<li><em>(Tentative)<\/em> 10 p.m. in the Crescent Room &#8212; Open Filk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>illogiCon includes a number of unique events, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/illogicon.org\/convention-activities\/illogicon-brewmaster-competition\/\">illogiCon Brewmaster Competition<\/a>, which has a &#8220;Steampunk&#8221; theme for 2017. 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I&#8217;m going &#8212; are you?\u00a0If so, stop in\u00a0and see me &#8230; Friday: 7 p.m. in the Cameron Room &#8212; Nerd Music Unplugged, with Madison &#8220;Metricula&#8221; Roberts 9 p.m. in the Smith Room &#8212; &#8220;Hell Week&#8221; Panel, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/illogicon-sff-in-the-research-triangle\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,164,21,386,387],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-convention","tag-fantasy","tag-music","tag-science-fiction-2","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}