{"id":1676,"date":"2008-09-12T14:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T14:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2008-09-12T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T14:58:57","slug":"rock-me-like-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1676","title":{"rendered":"Rock me like a&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week is the <a href=\"austin game developers conference\">Austin Game Developers Conference<\/a>, wherein my fellow GAMBITeer Matt Weise and I will be presenting our video game adaptation workshop.  I&#8217;m excited, because this will be the first time I&#8217;ve presented at a GDC event, but I&#8217;m also a little apprehensive &#150; not because of the whole public speaking thing (which is <i>cake<\/i>), but because Hurricane Ike is scheduled to make landfall in Texas at the <i>same time<\/i> that we were.<br \/>\nLuckily, the active word in that sentence is <i>were:<\/i> JetBlue earned even <i>more<\/i> bonus points with me today for relocating all three of us to the Sunday morning flight from the Saturday morning flight.  There&#8217;s still a chance that the weather will cause some sucky delays on Sunday morning, but it&#8217;s way, <i>way<\/i> less likely that we&#8217;ll be trying to land in a hurricane on Sunday than on Saturday.  Now we&#8217;ll just be landing in a puddle.<br \/>\nRight.<br \/>\nAnyway, I hope all my exes down in Texas (well, not exes &#150; I don&#8217;t think I have any exes in Texas, but I do have a lot of friends) are doing well, have successfully battened down all the appropriate hatches and are keeping dry!  Jen-Jen, <a href=\"http:\/\/benbrown.com\/\">Ben<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unmassed.com\/\">Joel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alargehead.com\/randomthoughts\/\">Leia<\/a> &#150; <i>this means you.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week is the Austin Game Developers Conference, wherein my fellow GAMBITeer Matt Weise and I will be presenting our video game adaptation workshop. I&#8217;m excited, because this will be the first time I&#8217;ve presented at a GDC event, but I&#8217;m also a little apprehensive &#150; not because of the whole public speaking thing (which [&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-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-r2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","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=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}