{"id":23740,"date":"2015-04-12T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/?p=23740"},"modified":"2015-04-12T23:04:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T06:04:36","slug":"wotf-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wotf-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"WOTF Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos Manor View Sunday, April 12, 2015<\/p>\n<p>The Writers of the Future Awards Ceremony and dinner are later this afternoon, so this will be brief. I hope to be home in time to post a bunch of accumulated Mail, but I see that I am typing slow; it may have to wait until tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>WOTF makes too much of new writers so the winners need reminding that except for a very few, this is as good as it gets for years, but that shouldn\u2019t discourage new writers from entering the contest. The week of instruction by Tim Powers and his guest speakers that all the quarterly winners get (all free, including transportation, room and board, etc.) is worth more than the Grand Prize. You can find the rules on line.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway it\u2019s time to get into my tux; actually I&#8217;m doing the tux with variations since my fingers cannot handle the studs and tie\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image00126.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"8\" title=\"clip_image001\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image001_thumb6.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2300 Well it was fun, but it\u2019s late and I better get to bed.&nbsp; I still have pills to take.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image001113.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"8\" title=\"clip_image001[1]\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"clip_image001[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image0011_thumb5.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image00166.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"8\" title=\"clip_image001[6]\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"clip_image001[6]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image0016_thumb6.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image0033.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"8\" title=\"clip_image003\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"clip_image003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image003_thumb1.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image00312.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"8\" title=\"clip_image003[1]\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"clip_image003[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image0031_thumb1.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image0052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"10\" title=\"clip_image005\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"clip_image005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image005_thumb1.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image00321.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"8\" title=\"clip_image003[2]\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; border-image: none; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"clip_image003[2]\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/clip_image0032_thumb1.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaos Manor View Sunday, April 12, 2015 The Writers of the Future Awards Ceremony and dinner are later this afternoon, so this will be brief. I hope to be home in time to post a bunch of accumulated Mail, but I see that I am typing slow; it may have \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wotf-awards\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-view"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}