{"id":6046,"date":"2017-05-01T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T05:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=6046"},"modified":"2017-05-01T02:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T07:39:24","slug":"manticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=6046","title":{"rendered":"Manticon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Manticon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Manticon-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Manticon-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Manticon-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Manticon-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Manticon.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be going to Manticon at the May 26 to 28 this year.  It is a little convention put on by a few hundred close friends in the Twin Cities, Minnesota who happen to like science fiction, much like me.  And God willing, we won&#8217;t have any snow by then.<\/p>\n<p>The convention focuses on military science fiction, mostly on David Weber&#8217;s stuff, but anybody who likes sci-fi is welcome.  The Klingons will be crashing our party, for instance.  They&#8217;re a rowdy but friendly bunch.  Most of the time.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>If you come, I&#8217;ll be the one wearing the Green Lantern Baseball Jersey, and maybe a fedora.  That gets negotiable the more hot I get.  And I might even be there with some copies of my first book in actual Dead Tree Format if everything works out right.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s the fun little link to the Manticon website if you are interested.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/manticonorg.ipage.com\/Manticon\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Manticon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be going to Manticon at the May 26 to 28 this year. It is a little convention put on by a few hundred close friends in the Twin Cities, Minnesota who happen to like science fiction, much like me.[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=6046\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6049,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6046\/revisions\/6049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}