{"id":5965,"date":"2022-07-03T15:59:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T22:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2022-07-03T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T23:00:48","slug":"two-thousand-and-twenty-one-dragons-walk-into-a-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/03\/two-thousand-and-twenty-one-dragons-walk-into-a-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Thousand and Twenty One Dragons Walk Into a Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So Dragon Con has come and gone again. I can&#8217;t tell you how great it was to see my friends again, to be in that environment again, to get a fresh supply of genre t-shirts again. Last year, while the zombie apocalypse was shambling past, we hunkered down and met virtually, which was actually quite nice &#8211; one of my friends shared a picture of the Westin bar where a lot of writers used to meet, and we used it as a backdrop for our our Zoom calls:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/westin-bar-small-600x450.png\" alt=\"the westin bar\" class=\"wp-image-5967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/westin-bar-small-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/westin-bar-small-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/westin-bar-small-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/westin-bar-small-640x480.png 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/westin-bar-small.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That year (2020), I was having so much fun in the mentoring sessions I never checked out the other content. But this year (well, now, 2021), despite the raging zombie apocalypse being worse than ever (except for the presence of the vaccine) I didn&#8217;t check out any online content in favor of real-world experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. Almost a year later (now 2022, with Dragon Con coming up in 3 months), I just noticed this post never went up. Sigh. I wonder what else I was going to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Dragon Con has come and gone again. I can&#8217;t tell you how great it was to see my friends again, to be in that environment again, to get a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}