{"id":1833,"date":"2012-06-01T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2012-06-01T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:00:09","slug":"heading-to-bea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/heading-to-bea\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading to BEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookexpoamerica.com\/Home\/\" target=\"_blank\">BookExpo America<\/a> (BEA) in New York, and I\u2019m excited to go.\u00a0 It\u2019s a big publishing convention, apparently.\u00a0 What this involves on my end:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1834\" title=\"Shoes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Shoes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"159\" \/>1. Picking comfortable shoes.<\/p>\n<p>2. Printing off my schedule and a map of NY around the Javits Center.<\/p>\n<p>3. Watching for my pass to come in the mail.\u00a0 Should it be here?<\/p>\n<p>4. Checking if my agent\u2019s phone number is in my cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>5. Preparing to adjust to the unexpected and unfamiliar.<\/p>\n<p>That last one is my favorite.\u00a0 No matter how many people give me tips about how difficult it is to get a taxi or where to stash ARC\u2019s so they won\u2019t be stolen, let\u2019s face it: I don\u2019t really know what I\u2019m getting myself into.\u00a0 I love this sort of situation.\u00a0 Cool things could happen.\u00a0 I\u2019ll probably meet some really nice people who love books.\u00a0 I\u2019ll doubtless commit some dire solecism and survive.\u00a0 I\u2019ll learn how people pronounce \u201cBEA.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ll get lost, and then find my way.\u00a0 It\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n<p>If you happen to see me at BEA (<a href=\"http:\/\/bea12.mapyourshow.com\/5_0\/sessions\/sessiondetails.cfm?ScheduledSessionID=1FA0CF\" target=\"_blank\">I sign at 3:00 Tuesday, Table 21<\/a>), please say hello.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be happy to see you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week is\u00a0BookExpo America (BEA) in New York, and I\u2019m excited to go.\u00a0 It\u2019s a big publishing convention, apparently.\u00a0 What this involves on my end: 1. Picking comfortable shoes. 2. Printing off my schedule and a map of NY around the Javits Center. 3. Watching for my pass to come in the mail.\u00a0 Should it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-promised-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}