{"id":67166,"date":"2025-04-25T22:16:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=67166"},"modified":"2025-04-25T22:16:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T05:16:18","slug":"adventuring-to-the-festival-of-books-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/?p=67166","title":{"rendered":"Adventuring to the Festival of Books 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This event<\/a> is the first of many for me this year. I’m not sure what to expect. Looking at the festival’s web page, this is bigger in every way than I imagined. Chuck Wendig will be here! And John Scalzi! And so many, many more people<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll be helping with the Waterdragon booth. If you’re at the event and you’re looking for me, I shouldn’t be far from the vendors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m writing this from a hotel not far from the event. Probably a little further than I want to walk, but I hear parking is a nightmare, so maybe we’ll look at all our options before heading out tomorrow. Maybe Uber? I don’t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of this hotel, let me tell you a story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before Melissa and I married, we had a big argument that landed a good portion of my possessions onto the street. Afterwards, we decided to make up and run away together for the weekend. We picked Santa Fe, and the hotel was around $110\/night. I remember thinking that it was kind of expensive, but nice. A perfect place for us to patch our relationship back together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hotel I’m in right now is also $110\/night, but this is Los Angeles, and it’s 30 years later, and oh my goodness is this place a little bit sketchy. There are bars on all the windows. When we entered the room, a blacklight shown from the wall, which I assume is to help guests see that there aren’t any blood stains on the floor or blankets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The parking lot is the size of a newspaper. Folded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melissa is understandably a bit intimidated by this place. It’s a step up from some of the hostels I stayed in when adventuring in Seattle a few years ago, but there’s a vibe about the place that maybe they don’t typically rent for the whole night. The attendant behind the glass did look surprised that we wanted to stay here 2 nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not that worried. Sure, there was a guy half-naked walking around the upstairs landing, but he didn’t seem angry or hostile. Just stoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I still don’t know what tomorrow and Sunday will be like, but I’m sure hanging out with some cool people and talking about books will do me a lot of good. Maybe I’ll even sell a couple of books while I’m here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This event is the first of many for me this year. I’m not sure what to expect. Looking at the festival’s web page, this is bigger in every way than I imagined. Chuck Wendig will be here! And John Scalzi! And so many, many more people! I’ll be helping with the Waterdragon booth. If you’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67168,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67166\/revisions\/67168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briancebuhl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}