{"id":27842,"date":"2023-06-17T11:14:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T15:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27842"},"modified":"2023-06-17T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T15:14:48","slug":"today-at-1300h-you-are-invited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27842","title":{"rendered":"Today, at 13:00h, you are invited !"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00a0All are welcome to join us!<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">We meet today, 17th of June, 13:00h. The invitation to Zoom will appear in the introduction post right at 13:00h.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Guest Speaker: Author Olivia Atwater<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Olivia Atwater<\/strong> writes whimsical historical fantasy with a hint of satire. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her fantastic, prose-inspiring husband and her two cats. She has been, at various times, a historical re-enactor, a professional witch at a metaphysical supply store, a web developer, and a vending machine repair person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fantasy as Satire:<\/strong> Though you can write a satire in just about any genre, fantasy lends itself particularly well to the idea for reasons both structural and psychological. Olivia Atwater discusses a few well-known examples of satire within the fantasy genre, and elaborates on why they succeed so well at their aims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Aspler: These are the Voyages&#8230;:<\/strong> There have been many fine ships named Enterprise. In this presentation, I will summarise their origins, their history, their battles, and the exploration that they carried out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussions:<\/strong> August meeting at the Legion in Lachine, what are we reading or watching, or creating!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Raffles:<\/strong> Nine prizes are on offer to lucky winners!<\/p>\n<p><strong>And Keith&#8217;s SF trivia quiz!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0All are welcome to join us! We meet today, 17th of June, 13:00h. The invitation to Zoom will appear in the introduction post right at 13:00h. Guest Speaker: Author Olivia Atwater Olivia Atwater writes whimsical historical fantasy with a hint of satire. She lives in Montreal, Quebec with her fantastic, prose-inspiring husband and her two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=27842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today, at 13:00h, you are invited !<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1387,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corona-meetings-from-home","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27843,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27842\/revisions\/27843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}