{"id":3496,"date":"2009-12-22T07:37:11","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2009-12-21T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:43:37","slug":"help-out-peter-watts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=3496","title":{"rendered":"Help Out Peter Watts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Watts, Hugo-nominated author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blindsight-Peter-Watts\/dp\/0765319640\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1261413479&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;sr=8-1\">Blindsight<\/a>, had a very bad experience at the U.S.\/Canadian border, and may need some legal help.  His account of the incident is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=932\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even if this is a simple mistake, it&#8217;s going to be costly for him to deal with.  <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2009\/12\/11\/helping-out-peter-watts\/\">John Scalzi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/12\/11\/dr-peter-watts-canad.html\">BoingBoing<\/a> have information on how to help contribute to his legal defense fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Watts, Hugo-nominated author of Blindsight, had a very bad experience at the U.S.\/Canadian border, and may need some legal help. His account of the incident is here. Even if this is a simple mistake, it&#8217;s going to be costly for him to deal with. John Scalzi and BoingBoing have information on how to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}