{"id":12403,"date":"2009-09-22T01:26:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/09\/22\/12403.html"},"modified":"2009-09-22T01:26:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T08:26:32","slug":"belated-happy-launch-anniversa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/09\/22\/belated-happy-launch-anniversa\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated happy launch anniversary to Strange Horizons!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was nine years and three weeks ago that <cite>Strange Horizons<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2000\/20000901\/\">launched<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned that in passing in mid-August, during the fund drive, but by the time September rolled around I had other stuff going on and neglected to post about it.<\/p>\n<p>But even though I'm late, I figured it was worth mentioning.<\/p>\n<p>Nine years! Nine years of posting material every week without fail (except for a vacation week at the end of each year). Nine years of a volunteer staff of about thirty people putting out a magazine, and paying the people who write for us. Nine years (plus a couple of months) of reading submissions. It's a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations and\/or thanks, as appropriate, to all those who've been involved: staff, contributors, donors, readers; editors who've reprinted our stories; people who've given us encouragement; people who've nominated our stuff for awards; people who've linked to us; people who've discussed what we've published. I'm glad to have been part of this endeavor for all these years, and glad it's still going.<\/p>\n<p>.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;Of course, this anniversary is always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/08\/27\/1401.html\">bittersweet<\/a> for me, because the week before we launched was one of the worst of my life, featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/alex\/\">Alex<\/a>'s suicide on top of a lot of other upsetting (though less-upsetting) things. But this time around I'm more focused on the <cite>SH<\/cite> anniversary than on other stuff.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nine years and three weeks ago that Strange Horizons launched. I mentioned that in passing in mid-August, during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-horizons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}