{"id":477,"date":"2009-10-21T13:40:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=477"},"modified":"2009-10-21T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T17:41:22","slug":"now-in-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/10\/now-in-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#038;Now in Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not up to a writeup of the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/english.buffalo.edu\/andnow\/\">&#038;Now: A Conference of Innovative Writing and the Literary Arts,<\/a> a festival\/conference (&#8220;festerence,&#8221; as someone noted) which just shuffled through Buffalo. But while you are waiting for the deadpan article in <i>Harper&#8217;s<\/i> about the event, these should be worth about 3000 words.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-477 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/10\/now-in-buffalo\/buffalo_convention_center\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/buffalo_convention_center-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-478\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-478'>\n\t\t\t\t&#038;Now conference attendees wait for Nathaniel Mackey&#8217;s keynote reading.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/10\/now-in-buffalo\/buffalo_dare_you_to_think\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/buffalo_dare_you_to_think-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-479\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-479'>\n\t\t\t\tThis sticker, unrelated to the conference, was an ad for something. The URL washed away, rendering it art.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2009\/10\/now-in-buffalo\/buffalo_strickland_bacon\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/buffalo_strickland_bacon-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-480\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-480'>\n\t\t\t\tStephanie Strickland joins me at The Century Grill, where it&#8217;s bacon night.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not up to a writeup of the recent &#038;Now: A Conference of Innovative Writing and the Literary Arts, a festival\/conference (&#8220;festerence,&#8221; as someone noted) which just shuffled through Buffalo. But while you are waiting for the deadpan article in Harper&#8217;s about the event, these should be worth about 3000 words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,40,24,4,13],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books","tag-fiction","tag-gatherings","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}