{"id":249,"date":"2008-05-27T20:59:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T03:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-05-27T20:59:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T03:59:54","slug":"montral-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/05\/montral-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sum\u00admer would\u00adn\u2019t be sum\u00admer without a sum\u00admer con\u00adfer\u00adence or two. There\u2019s some\u00adthing about walk\u00ading the streets or sit\u00adting in cafes, talk\u00ading about tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, in balmy weath\u00ader (well, when it does\u00adn\u2019t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2007\/07\/home-from-oxford\/\">rain like it did<\/a> at last year\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmlsummerschool.com\/\"><span class=\"caps\">CSW<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School<\/a> in Oxford). This year I\u2019m off to Mon\u00adtr\u00e9al for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balisage.net\/\">Bal\u00adis\u00adage<\/a> in the middle of August. Even if the weath\u00ader decides to be nasty, and the streets are too unpleas\u00adant to stroll, there will be lots of inter\u00adest\u00ading people to talk tech\u00adno\u00adlogy with and cafes near the con\u00adfer\u00adence hotel to fre\u00adquent. If you missed the dead\u00adline to speak, there\u2019s no need to pan\u00adic just yet. There is still room on the sched\u00adule for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balisage.net\/latebreaking-call.html\">late-break\u00ading talks<\/a> as long as you get your pro\u00adpos\u00adal in by June 13. I was one of the review\u00aders of the main batch of talks so I got a sneak peek at some of the sub\u00admis\u00adsions. There is thought-pro\u00advok\u00ading stuff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balisage.net\/Program.html\">on the pro\u00adgram<\/a> and I expect lots of hefty dis\u00adcus\u00adsion, at the talks and in the cafes after\u00adwards. Warm weath\u00ader, inter\u00adest\u00ading people, good food \u2014 I guess I should brush up on my French a little for those restaurants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sum\u00admer would\u00adn\u2019t be sum\u00admer without a sum\u00admer con\u00adfer\u00adence or two. There\u2019s some\u00adthing about walk\u00ading the streets or sit\u00adting in cafes, talk\u00ading about tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, in balmy weath\u00ader (well, when it does\u00adn\u2019t rain like it did at last year\u2019s <span class=\"caps\">CSW<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">XML<\/span> Sum\u00admer School in Oxford). This year I\u2019m off to Mon\u00adtr\u00e9al for Bal\u00adis\u00adage in the middle of \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/05\/montral-in-august\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cMon\u00adtr\u00e9al in August\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-crafts","tag-balisageconference08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}