{"id":1196,"date":"2010-04-14T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T12:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:31:13","slug":"london-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/london-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"London in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-body-3019059406520797242\">A bid is in for London to host the world science fiction convention in 2014. This would be 9 years after the UK&#8217;s last worldcon outing in 2005, which itself was 10 years after the previous in 1995. So, the cycle is about right and I intend to support it. (If Best Beloved reads this at work, it will be the first she&#8217;s heard of it: well, I would have told you this evening, my love &#8230;)<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonin2014.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the official site<\/a>, and here&#8217;s the excellent promo video. Geeky points increase for identifying every programme or movie used. (Excluding possibly generic aerial shots and combining multiple scenes from one show, I score 18 known [with a lot of Dr Who] vs probably 14 unknown and a couple of guesses.) It&#8217;s astonishing how badly Big Ben comes out of all this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tlTaXjDt6_E&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"640\" height=\"385\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tlTaXjDt6_E&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<div id=\"post-body-3019059406520797242\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bid is in for London to host the world science fiction convention in 2014. This would be 9 years after the UK&#8217;s last worldcon outing in 2005, which itself was 10 years after the previous in 1995. So, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/london-in-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}