{"id":1663,"date":"2008-08-09T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2008-08-09T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T15:06:09","slug":"greetings-from-sunny-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1663","title":{"rendered":"Greetings from sunny L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;m in bright, sunny Los Angeles, staying with my friends Talon and Sara and presenting at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sandbox.siggraph.org\/program.html\">SIGGRAPH Sandbox Conference<\/a>, where I&#8217;ll be conducting a transmedia storytelling workshop first thing tomorrow morning.  I&#8217;m having a great time so far &#150; I slept a <i>ton<\/i> last night between the six hours on the plane and another four or more this morning at Talon and Sara&#8217;s while I waited for the clock to catch up, then wrote a short piece on their porch while I waited for <i>them<\/i> to catch up, and then all three of us went out to breakfast at a little coffeeshop on the pier near their apartment in Redondo Beach.  We&#8217;re about to head down to the convention center so I can get myself all registered and everything, but the majority of the conference is going down tomorrow.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve never been a big fan of L.A., but it sure is <i>beautiful<\/i> here, especially compared to the monsoon season that Boston has dared to call a summer this year.  I&#8217;m starting to see the appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;m in bright, sunny Los Angeles, staying with my friends Talon and Sara and presenting at the SIGGRAPH Sandbox Conference, where I&#8217;ll be conducting a transmedia storytelling workshop first thing tomorrow morning. I&#8217;m having a great time so far &#150; I slept a ton last night between the six hours on the plane [&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":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-qP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","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=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}