{"id":377,"date":"2012-09-05T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T04:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/09\/05\/new-orc-city\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T04:53:00","slug":"new-orc-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2012\/09\/05\/new-orc-city\/","title":{"rendered":"New ORC City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/34.orycon.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/oryconflyer.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/hotsheet\/orycon34flyer.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"OryCon 34 PDF flyer\" title=\"OryCon 34 PDF flyer\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an unofficial announcement, so don&#8217;t make plans until you see an update on the <a href=\"http:\/\/34.orycon.org\/\">OryCon 34 web site<\/a>, but: I am running the <b>Open Read and Critique (ORC)<\/b> sessions again this year, but instead of a solid three-hour block of ORCs on Friday and Saturday, I&#8217;m splitting off the last hour on each day and moving it to nighttime.<\/p>\n<p>Why the change?  Well, ever since I started doing this <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2009\/12\/orc-equations.html\">back in 2009<\/a>, I&#8217;ve noticed that the final session on each day has been poorly attended.  I&#8217;ve also gotten a few requests for late-night sessions, so that people who work the con during the day, or aspiring writers prefer panels to parties&#8211;and thus are freer after dinnertime&#8211;can also participate.<\/p>\n<p>I personally like to do a bit of party-cruising at cons, but I figured I&#8217;d try moving that poorly-attended third ORC session to 8:00 PM on both days and see what happens.  The demand is certainly there for the earlier sessions, and people have even asked about having Sunday sessions; but I&#8217;d like to see how this modification goes before considering additions.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, official info should be up next week, and you can e-mail <a href=\"mailto:orc@orycon.org\">orc@orycon.org<\/a> if you have any other questions.  Hope to see you in November!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an unofficial announcement, so don&#8217;t make plans until you see an update on the OryCon 34 web site, but: I am running the Open Read and Critique (ORC) sessions again this year, but instead of a solid three-hour&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[19,18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orycon","category-pdx","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}