{"id":1415,"date":"1996-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1996-08-19T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/1996\/08\/19\/history\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T23:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T07:42:49","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/1996\/08\/19\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div><b>Locations:<\/b> Mountain View, CA<\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<div><b>Dates:<\/b> 9\/91-8\/19\/96<\/div>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<p>When I attended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/clarion.html\">Clarion West<\/a>, I met someone (Jane Hawkins, maybe?) who had attended Clarion, then saved her money for a couple years and took a year off of work to write fiction. It sounded like a great idea to me, so I resolved to do it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sometime in '93, I realized that I had friends scattered all over the country whom I never got to see. It occurred to me to combine the writing year with travel around the US.<\/p>\r\n<p>Many delays ensued. I bought a motorcycle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/04\/04\/12901.html\">crashed it<\/a>, and bought a car. A year went by while I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/handbook.html\"><cite>The VRML 2.0 Handbook<\/cite><\/a> with Josie Wernecke.<\/p>\r\n<p>Finally, at the beginning of August '96, I officially went on leave from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgi.com\/\">SGI<\/a>. A week later I finished working on the VRML book; I then spent two weeks sorting and packing all my possessions and putting most of them in storage. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/1996\/08\/24\/week01\/\">I hit the road<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<p>(This page created 2 October 1996.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backstory, buildup, and beginnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stage-0"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/wander\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}