{"id":225,"date":"2011-09-30T10:47:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T14:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2011-09-30T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T14:47:26","slug":"festival-roll-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Festival roll-out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tourmaline-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-226\" title=\"Native Sunrise\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tourmaline-16-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tourmaline-16-300x217.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tourmaline-16-1024x740.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/tourmaline-16.jpg 1476w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In a few hours, I&#8217;ll be setting up a tent (probably in the rain) at the Grand Valley Renaissance Festival for the&#8230;fifth time. \u00a0I&#8217;ve only missed it once since graduation (and that was because I was a bridesmaid in a friend&#8217;s wedding a few weeks after festival and was threatened with death if I got sick&#8211;so I decided not to go.).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Peterhofpalacenecklace-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-227 alignleft\" title=\"Peterhof Palace\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Peterhofpalacenecklace-006-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Peterhofpalacenecklace-006-300x179.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Peterhofpalacenecklace-006-1024x612.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Peterhofpalacenecklace-006.jpg 1546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ll be there with jewelry, garb, bits and pieces of geekery, Miss Jennie and my boyfriend Mike. \u00a0A grand time will be had by all! \u00a0I&#8217;m also introducing a new product (which I unfortunately don&#8217;t have pictures of)&#8211;gaming tokens. \u00a0They&#8217;re about a quarter inch thick and the size of a dime with the letters A-J stamped into them, to help GMs keep track of which enemies are attacking whom. \u00a0It was something I always wanted to have as a GM&#8230;and now I&#8217;m passing that little thing on to others. \u00a0They&#8217;re made of polymer clay and I&#8217;ll be selling them for $5\/set of 10 in a little organza baggie.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/caspiancoast-007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-229\" title=\"Caspian Coast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/caspiancoast-007-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/caspiancoast-007-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/caspiancoast-007-1024x647.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/caspiancoast-007.jpg 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be Mike&#8217;s first experience of actually running a show with me&#8211;he&#8217;s visited me at one, but he&#8217;s never been there for the whole time I&#8217;ve run one. \u00a0Jen, however, is old hand at this and should be fine. \u00a0Despite the nasty Friday weather, the forecasts say that Saturday and Sunday will be beautiful, even if it&#8217;ll be a little chilly on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garnet-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-232\" title=\"Garnet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garnet-04-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garnet-04-300x252.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/garnet-04.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As long as it&#8217;s not 30 degrees and snowing, it <em>won&#8217;t<\/em>\u00a0be the nastiest weather I&#8217;ve experienced at a festival&#8230;and rain on set-up day tends to be good luck, since that generally means that the weather for the weekend is lovely.<\/p>\n<p>Also bringing some writerly things, including booklets containing an excerpt from <em><a title=\"Awakenings, a post-apocalyptic serial by Erin M. Klitzke\" href=\"http:\/\/awakenings.embklitzke.com\" target=\"_blank\">Awakenings<\/a><\/em>\u00a0and a business card with my official site as an author and a free download of my novelette, <em>Falling Stars<\/em>. \u00a0We&#8217;ll see how many of those wander away from my booth as freebies.<\/p>\n<p>Time to finish packing&#8230;hope to see a lot of folks at GVRen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few hours, I&#8217;ll be setting up a tent (probably in the rain) at the Grand Valley Renaissance Festival for the&#8230;fifth time. \u00a0I&#8217;ve only missed it once since graduation (and that was because I was a bridesmaid in a friend&#8217;s wedding a few weeks after festival and was threatened with death if I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,12,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-information","category-new-pieces","category-shows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1N0LD-3D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judeschest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}