{"id":686,"date":"2004-10-14T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/14\/10-14-04\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T21:20:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-01T05:20:30","slug":"tim-powers-goh-speech-arisia-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/14\/tim-powers-goh-speech-arisia-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Powers, GOH speech, Arisia &#8217;04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Powers did the Guest of Honor speech at Arisia in January 2004. I&#8217;ve never read anything from him but I was really impressed with the talk. Here&#8217;s one little anecdote that I made sure to remember. As a background, he has written quite a bit of spooky\/horror\/sci-fi. He was talking about why people are afraid of spooky things in books even though we all KNOW it&#8217;s fiction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t believe in ghosts but I&#8217;m still scared of them.<\/p>\n<p>They did this experiment. Some 30,000 chickens grew up indoors on this farm for generation after generation. They hadn&#8217;t seen so much as a tree or a bush or the sun in generations. So they took this cut-out of a hawk and ran it along a string across the top of the building. And all of the chickens went crazy, running for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>So now if we could talk to one of those chickens and ask why she ran, she&#8217;d probably say, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know man. But it really freaked me out!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Powers did the Guest of Honor speech at Arisia in January 2004. I&#8217;ve never read anything from him but I was really impressed with the talk. Here&#8217;s one little anecdote that I made sure to remember. As a background, he has written quite a bit of spooky\/horror\/sci-fi. He was talking about why people are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}