{"id":4562,"date":"2011-04-06T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=4562"},"modified":"2011-04-05T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T09:22:09","slug":"context-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/context-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"ConText 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that NZ Book Month is over it&#8217;s time to look forward to the next event on the horizon, which in my case is <a href=\"http:\/\/context.sf.org.nz\/wiki\/index.php\/Main_Page\">ConText<\/a>, the\u00a0 <strong>32<sup>nd<\/sup> New Zealand Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Convention<\/strong>, which is to be held in Auckland over the Queen\u2019s Birthday long weekend of <strong>3-5 June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although the full programme is yet to be confirmed, the international Guest of Honour is US author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catherineasaro.net\/biography.html\"><strong>Catherine Asaro<\/strong><\/a> who will also be running a pre-Convention writing workshop on 1-2 June.<\/p>\n<p>I am very much looking forward to attending <strong>ConText<\/strong>, meeting up with Catherine and the other guests, who I understand may include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lyn-McConchie\/e\/B003OGQU0Q\/\"><strong>Lyn McConchie<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellkirkpatrick.com\/\"><strong>Russell Kirkpatrick<\/strong><\/a>, with fan Guest of Honour, <strong>Lynette Howell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to the event, I&#8217;ll bring you details of the programme events I&#8217;ll be particiapting in&#8212;I do look forward to seeing some of my NZ readers there. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that NZ Book Month is over it&#8217;s time to look forward to the next event on the horizon, which in my case is ConText, the\u00a0 32nd New Zealand Science Fiction &amp; Fantasy Convention, which is to be held in Auckland over the Queen\u2019s Birthday long weekend of 3-5 June. Although the full programme is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}