{"id":944,"date":"2006-01-06T19:16:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T23:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/06\/brace-yourself-philadelphia\/"},"modified":"2006-01-06T19:16:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T23:16:33","slug":"brace-yourself-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/06\/brace-yourself-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brace Yourself, Philadelphia Film Lovers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"roughguide.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/roughguide.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" \/>On January 26th, I&#8217;ll be meeting up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\">John Scalzi<\/a>, the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1843535203\"><i>The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies<\/i><\/a>, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.germbooks.com\/\">Germ Books + Gallery<\/a>, which we&#8217;re led to believe is in a very hip part of town and is itself a very happening place. For where else would Scalzi join with the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/1970s\"><i>The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane<\/i><\/a> to discuss great (and not so great) science fiction movies of the &#8217;70s? As he told his fans:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The plan at the moment is to have the two of us blab at each other for a while and then open up the floor to questions, comments, and spontaneous dance routines from the audience. But you never do know. Hey, it&#8217;s a live appearance! Anything could happen. And both Ron and I are smartass know-it-alls, so I expect this to be fun. At the very least we&#8217;ll amuse <i>ourselves<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So come on and help us fill up the bookstore&#8212;and if you don&#8217;t actually live in Philly, but you have friends who do, well, tell <i>them<\/i> to come see us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 26th, I&#8217;ll be meeting up with John Scalzi, the author of The Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies, at Germ Books + Gallery, which we&#8217;re led to believe is in a very hip part of town and is itself a very happening place. For where else would Scalzi join with the author of The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}