{"id":2302,"date":"2018-09-23T20:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T01:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2018-09-23T20:02:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T01:02:46","slug":"watch-me-scintillate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2302","title":{"rendered":"Watch me scintillate!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In ten days I leave for Montreal, for the new convention Scintillation. Here&#8217;s where you can find me there if you&#8217;re a member! (Memberships have been sold out for the year, but I&#8217;m almost certainly going next year too.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><strong>Friday 20:00<\/strong> Time Travel and Teens <br\/>Why do these things go together so well? <br\/><em>Jo Walton (M), Kari Maaren, Marissa Lingen, Suzanna Hersey<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday 10:00<\/strong> Good and Evil <br\/>Ada Palmer has offered the thought experiment of a universe where the morally worst act ever was that somebody bought a flavour of ice cream they knew their friend didn&#8217;t like. Conversely, the Vikings ask the theodicy question backwards: why is there good? Let&#8217;s consider the space of good and evil and what interesting things we can do with them. <br\/><em>Yves Meynard (M), Ada Palmer, Maria Farrell, Jo Walton, Marissa Lingen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday 11:00<\/strong> Reading from selected works. With Tim Boerger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday 14:00<\/strong> Why you should be reading John M. Ford <br\/>World Fantasy award winning author of The Dragon Waiting, Growing Up Weightless, and many other stories and poems and gaming material. <br\/><em>Marissa Lingen (M), Emmet O&#8217;Brien, Andrew Plotkin, Lila Garrott, Sarah Emrys<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday 17:00<\/strong> Imagining the Future <br\/>How can we write science fiction when it&#8217;s so difficult to imagine the future? <br\/><em>Yves Meynard, Dennis Clark, Ada Palmer, Maria Farrell, Marissa Lingen (M), Jim Cambias<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In ten days I leave for Montreal, for the new convention Scintillation. Here&#8217;s where you can find me there if you&#8217;re a member! (Memberships have been sold out for the year, but I&#8217;m almost certainly going next year too.) Friday 20:00 Time Travel and Teens Why do these things go together so well? Jo Walton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,9],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cons","tag-see-the-world-they-said"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}