{"id":29846,"date":"2016-01-13T21:15:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T02:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29846"},"modified":"2016-01-15T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T23:11:06","slug":"t-minus-one-month-to-farpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29846","title":{"rendered":"T Minus One Month to Farpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe we&#8217;re a month away from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farpointcon.com\/\">Farpoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Farpoint is a convention held annually outside Baltimore in mid-February, usually right around Valentine&#8217;s Day.  This year will be my eleventh Farpoint; I&#8217;ve been attending since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The headlining guests this year are novelist David Gerrold (writer of <i>Star Trek<\/i>&#8216;s &#8220;The Trouble with Tribbles&#8221;), Sean Maher (Dr. Simon Tam from <i>Firefly<\/i>), and John Morton (Dak from <i>The Empire Strikes Back<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Plus, there&#8217;s a whole mess of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farpointcon.com\/departments\/programming\/author-guests\/\">author guests<\/a> (myself included), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farpointcon.com\/departments\/programming\/diy-new-media-programming\/\">New Media guests<\/a>, and much more to be seen over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/10991675_10153039206065482_7302895006571944231_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"10991675_10153039206065482_7302895006571944231_o\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-29849\" \/>Farpoint is a nice, relaxing convention.  Falling in the middle of winter as it does, it&#8217;s a nice time when friends come together and hang out for the weekend.  And there&#8217;s always something to do or someone to talk to.  Farpoint, if you&#8217;ve never been, is full of friends you haven&#8217;t met yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the convention next month.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially looking forward to meeting David Gerrold.  I&#8217;ll have to pull together some of the Gerrold books in my collection to get them autographed &mdash; <i>The World of Star Trek<\/i>, <i>The Trouble with Tribbles<\/i> (his book on the making of the episode), <i>Worlds of Wonder<\/i> (his book on writing science fiction), <i>The Martian Child<\/i> (his award-winning novella about the adoption of his son), and maybe one or two more.  I wouldn&#8217;t want to be greedy.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for something to do in February, come to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farpointcon.com\/\">Farpoint<\/a>.  I&#8217;m sure to see you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe we&#8217;re a month away from Farpoint. Farpoint is a convention held annually outside Baltimore in mid-February, usually right around Valentine&#8217;s Day. This year will be my eleventh Farpoint; I&#8217;ve been attending since 2006. The headlining guests this year are novelist David Gerrold (writer of Star Trek&#8216;s &#8220;The Trouble with Tribbles&#8221;), Sean Maher<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29846\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;T Minus One Month to Farpoint&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4388,116,4389,4390],"class_list":["post-29846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-david-gerrold","tag-farpoint","tag-firefly","tag-sean-maher","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}