{"id":77,"date":"2012-04-17T15:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T23:05:15","slug":"back-from-romantic-times-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Back from Romantic Times Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been way <em>way<\/em> too long since I posted, but I got a good excuse &#8211; honest!<\/p>\n<p>You see, I&#8217;m not just a geek, I am an <em>author<\/em> geek, someone who writes stories for a living. And with that being the case, I sometimes go to conventions that celebrate romance and writing.<\/p>\n<p>This last week I was at the Romantic Times Convention. With this being my first time at this particular convention, there were some hiccups as I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/br.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-83\" title=\"br\" src=\"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/br-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>learned the ropes and got the lay of the land. However, many awesome things did happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lover-unleashed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-80\" title=\"lover-unleashed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lover-unleashed-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lover-unleashed-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lover-unleashed-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/lover-unleashed.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I met authors! I met authors I like! I met (or spoke to for a moment and did not escorted out by security &#8211; same thing!) JR Ward, Anne Rice, Kristen Painter, Kate Pearce, Delilah Marvelle, Eden Bradley, and many, <em>many <\/em>others.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next several days I shall share stories and review some of the books I got. I shall also be doing a giveaway (or three!)<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been way way too long since I posted, but I got a good excuse &#8211; honest! You see, I&#8217;m not just a geek, I am an author geek, someone who writes stories for a living. And with that being the case, I sometimes go to conventions that celebrate romance and writing. This last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[26,27],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-other-craziness","tag-convention","tag-giveaways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romanticgeekgirl.com\/dani\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}