{"id":2839,"date":"2015-04-28T07:38:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T05:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2015-04-28T11:34:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T09:34:23","slug":"forget-about-the-hugo-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2839","title":{"rendered":"Forget about the Hugo Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spagmag.org\/issue-61-5\/2014-xyzzy-award-winners\/\">2014 XYZZY Awards<\/a> are out.<\/p>\n<p>I really need to find the time to play some of these.<\/p>\n<p>(Actually, don&#8217;t ignore the Hugo Awards. As part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterhunternation.com\/2015\/04\/09\/a-response-to-george-r-r-martin-from-the-author-who-started-sad-puppies\/\">Sad Puppy<\/a> foofarah some worthy authors were nominated, some <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterhunternation.com\/2015\/04\/15\/well-this-sucks-2\/\">worthy authors withdrew<\/a>, and Cixin Liu&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/features\/series\/cixin-lius-the-three-body-trilogy\"><em>The Three-Body Problem<\/em><\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehugoawards.org\/hugo-history\/2015-hugo-awards\/\">up-leveled<\/a>. I would not have read it otherwise, and I liked it. Recommended).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 XYZZY Awards are out. I really need to find the time to play some of these. (Actually, don&#8217;t ignore the Hugo Awards. As part of the Sad Puppy foofarah some worthy authors were nominated, some worthy authors withdrew, and Cixin Liu&#8217;s The Three-Body Problem was up-leveled. I would not have read it otherwise, and I liked it. Recommended). &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farting-around","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}