{"id":1629,"date":"2008-05-23T12:22:53","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T12:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2008-05-23T12:22:53","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T12:22:53","slug":"the-big-day-arrives-the-julius-schwartz-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1629","title":{"rendered":"The big day arrives: the Julius Schwartz Lecture."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not my wedding.  This evening is the inaugural Julius Schwartz Lecture, an event I&#8217;ve been helping to plan, produce and otherwise bring into existence for the last year.  As a result, and as a reward, today I am the personal handler for Neil Gaiman, a man who&#8217;s been a role model for me since I was in junior high.  To say that I&#8217;m excited (and not a little nervous) would be a major understatement.<br \/>\nFor the event I&#8217;ve written articles and designed posters, websites, badges, programs, and, a personal first, the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\">MIT homepage<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve been the major point of contact for Neil, helped coordinate efforts on the back-end, run tons of errands, and otherwise put my fingerprints all over this baby.  And now that it&#8217;s all happening, I&#8217;m more or less sitting back, going by my extremely granular schedule, and praying that the wheels don&#8217;t come off this thing at any point (or that the skies don&#8217;t elect to open up and start pouring rain on us all).<br \/>\nPictures and other accounts of this evening&#8217;s chaos to follow.  Details at http:\/\/cms.mit.edu\/juliusschwartz for the interested.  Wish us luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not my wedding. This evening is the inaugural Julius Schwartz Lecture, an event I&#8217;ve been helping to plan, produce and otherwise bring into existence for the last year. As a result, and as a reward, today I am the personal handler for Neil Gaiman, a man who&#8217;s been a role model for me since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-qh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}