{"id":5077,"date":"2010-11-09T09:12:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T13:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2010-11-09T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T13:12:05","slug":"and-then-she-met-neil-gaiman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=5077","title":{"rendered":"And Then She Met Neil Gaiman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny the Bloggess, who routinely makes me laugh so hard I shoot coffee out my nose (whether or not I&#8217;m actually drinking coffee at the time), is a fan of Neil Gaiman.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I should preface this post by saying that Neil Gaiman and Ray Bradbury have been my two living writing idols since I was a school girl and if you comment \u201cDid you mean Neil <em>Diamond<\/em>?\u201d I will find you and burn your house down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When she heard that he was going to be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulandstorm.com\/gigs\/w00tstock\/\">w00tstock<\/a> near her home, she &#8220;convinced&#8221; her husband to let her attend.  And because Neil Gaiman is <em>awesome<\/em>, she had a lovely fangirl moment with him and asked him an interview question.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the entire story (complete with knitted monkey-hat pictures) <a href=\"http:\/\/thebloggess.com\/?p=8890\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny the Bloggess, who routinely makes me laugh so hard I shoot coffee out my nose (whether or not I&#8217;m actually drinking coffee at the time), is a fan of Neil Gaiman. I should preface this post by saying that Neil Gaiman and Ray Bradbury have been my two living writing idols since I was [&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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077"}],"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=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5089,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions\/5089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}