{"id":2186,"date":"2014-10-08T19:24:42","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T19:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2022-08-26T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:33:18","slug":"bright-and-breezy-bristolcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/bright-and-breezy-bristolcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bright and breezy BristolCon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristolcon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BristolCon<\/a> programme is out and, guess what, I&#8217;m doing a couple of things on top of all that painful but necessary sitting in the bar and drinking beer &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 17:45 <strong>Past Lives, Future Visions: What can SF writers learn from history?<\/strong> What events lurk in the past that we don\u2019t realise have happened or don\u2019t think about \u2013 are we recreating the past when we envision the future?<br \/>\nwith Ben Jeapes (Mod), Janet Edwards, Dev Agarwal, Jessica Rydill, Justin Newland<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 <strong>Rogues and Ruffians, Pirates and Thieves:<\/strong> From Han Solo to Loki to Locke Lamora, the scoundrel has enduring appeal in SF and fantasy. What is it we all like about a bad boy (or girl?) Who are the best SFF rogues, are pirates better than thieves, and how do you write a good bad good guy without getting completely confused?<br \/>\nwith Anne Lyle (Mod), Huw Powell, Ben Jeapes, Gaie Sebold, Lor\/Rudie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this year&#8217;s BristolCon programme is out and, guess what, I&#8217;m doing a couple of things on top of all that painful but necessary sitting in the bar and drinking beer &#8230; 17:00 \u2013 17:45 Past Lives, Future Visions: What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/bright-and-breezy-bristolcon\/\">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":[39],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bens-life","tag-bristolcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3787,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/3787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}