{"id":502,"date":"2008-07-29T22:39:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T05:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpBlogs\/YellowedPerils_test\/?p=502"},"modified":"2011-07-30T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T07:09:41","slug":"countdown-to-pulpcon-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2008\/07\/29\/countdown-to-pulpcon-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Pulpcon 37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In less than two days, <a href=\"http:\/\/pulpcon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pulpcon 37<\/a> opens its doors at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Dayton, Ohio, Convention Center. Wish I could be there.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-503\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-503\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/files\/2010\/08\/pulpster-17-small.jpg?resize=150%2C204&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Pulpster, Number 17\" width=\"150\" height=\"204\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Pulpster, Number 17<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I intended to post an entry when I received the final Pulpcon newsletter a week or so ago. This year\u2019s guests of honor will be contemporary science fiction writers <strong>Jerry Pournelle<\/strong> and <strong>Larry Niven<\/strong>. Their selection was a bit controversial, due to their limited connection to the pulp era.<\/p>\n<p>A video interview with the late science fiction writer <a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/wikka.php?wakka=WilliamsonJack\">Jack Williamson<\/a> will be shown, followed later in the evening by a presentation on Williamson by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haffnerpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Haffner<\/a>, who has published several collections of Williamson\u2019s stories.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, there will be the popular pulp room, auctions, the Lamont Award presentation and radio play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/category\/news\/events\/pulpcon\/\">My one visit<\/a> to Pulpcon was very fun, but seemed to go too quickly.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone attending this year\u2019s con will have a blast.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u00a0William<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In less than two days, Pulpcon 37 opens its doors at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Dayton, Ohio, Convention Center. Wish I could be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-pulpcon"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-86","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}