{"id":5571,"date":"2014-08-20T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2014-08-20T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T18:00:29","slug":"your-happening-world-august-12th-through-august-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2014\/08\/20\/your-happening-world-august-12th-through-august-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Happening World (August 12th through August 20th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zog.org\/2014\/07\/creme-de-bananes.html\">Cr&egrave;me de bananes &#8211; Michel Vuijlsteke&#8217;s weblog &mdash; Michel Vuijlsteke&#8217;s Weblog<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/damiengwalter\/the-best-british-sci-fi-writers-of-2014-wnn2\">21 Of The Best British Sci-Fi Writers You&#8217;ve Probably Never Heard Of<\/a> &#8211; Here are the top 21 sci-fi and fantasy authors you should be reading this year.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/overtheeffingrainbow.co.uk\/2014\/08\/con-report-loncon-3-worldcon-2014\/\">Con Report: LonCon 3 (Worldcon 2014) &#8211; Over The Effing Rainbow<\/a> &#8211; Everything is kind of a blur at this point, but let&rsquo;s see if I can&rsquo;t dig up a few shiny moments worth writing about&hellip;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thingsmeanalot.com\/2014\/08\/loncon3-report.html\">LonCon3 Report ~ things mean a lot<\/a> &#8211; LonCon3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, was happening too close to me this year for me to be able to resist temptation. So last Saturday I got up at an ungodly hour, got on a train to London, and spent the day at the ExCel Convention Centre attending panels where writers and critics I admire discussed various aspects of speculative fiction and fandom, going to readings by some of my favourite authors, and wandering around.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/runninscared\/2014\/06\/terf_battle_a_new_book_reignites_the_war_between_radical_lesbian_feminists_and_trans_women.php?utm_content=buffer2d234&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">TERF Battle: A New Book Reignites the War Between Radical Lesbian Feminists and Trans Women | Village Voice<\/a> &#8211; The Internet and social media have only relocated this long-running war online, even as mainstream feminists have banished TERFs &mdash; &quot;Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists,&quot; as trans allies call the opposition, a label the feminists consider a slur &mdash; to the outer fringes of the movement. Steinem herself disavowed her older views in an essay published in the Advocate in 2013. &quot;Transgender people,&quot; she wrote, &quot;including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cr&egrave;me de bananes &#8211; Michel Vuijlsteke&#8217;s weblog &mdash; Michel Vuijlsteke&#8217;s Weblog &#8211; 21 Of The Best British Sci-Fi Writers You&#8217;ve Probably Never Heard Of &#8211; Here are the top 21 sci-fi and fantasy authors you should be reading this year. Con Report: LonCon 3 (Worldcon 2014) &#8211; Over The Effing Rainbow &#8211; Everything is kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[870,1993,1994,2441,1911,1753,1616],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linky","tag-fandom","tag-loncon3","tag-recipes","tag-science-fiction","tag-terf","tag-trans","tag-transphobia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5578,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions\/5578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}