{"id":4133,"date":"2016-04-29T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=4133"},"modified":"2016-08-01T12:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T12:35:18","slug":"guests-honour-octocon-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2016\/04\/29\/guests-honour-octocon-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re Guests of Honour at Octocon 2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s <i>way <\/i>beyond a pleasure to announce that Peter and I will be joint Guests of Honour this October at<a href=\"http:\/\/2016.octocon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Octocon 2016, the national Irish science fiction convention.<\/a> It&#8217;s the first Irish con we ever went to. It\u2019ll be so great to be back. And we won\u2019t even have to go through airport security to get there!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Not much more to add at this point except to say how honored we both are to be asked to serve. Which we\u2019ll do gladly&#8230; with an eye to the proper percentage of good-natured rebellion, as befitting the theme and this particular year in Ireland. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>If you can make it: see you there! 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