{"id":33771,"date":"2026-01-01T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33771"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:09:23","slug":"clubs-first-event-of-2026-set-for-saturday-january-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33771","title":{"rendered":"CLUB\u2019S FIRST EVENT OF 2026 SET FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 10!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JANUARY2026e-MeetingPromo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-33768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JANUARY2026e-MeetingPromo1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JANUARY2026e-MeetingPromo1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JANUARY2026e-MeetingPromo1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JANUARY2026e-MeetingPromo1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JANUARY2026e-MeetingPromo1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>MonSFFA\u2019s first event of 2026 is the club\u2019s January e-meeting, scheduled for Saturday, January 10, a little over a week from now!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be comparing artificial intelligence as depicted in SF with the AI models currently in development in the real world! We\u2019ll also feature a primer on perspective as a useful guide to producing striking works of sci-fi art, and we\u2019ll remember fondly the classic SF&amp;F toys of our collective childhoods!<\/p>\n<p>Join our ZOOM-Chat on Saturday, January 10, from 1:00PM to 5:00PM for all this, <em>and more<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ZOOM-logo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ZOOM-logo-2-1024x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ZOOM-logo-2-1024x410.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ZOOM-logo-2-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ZOOM-logo-2-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/ZOOM-logo-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a>Note that MonSFFA\u2019s winter meetings are conducted exclusively online via ZOOM; February\u2019s e-meeting is slated for Saturday, the 21st. We return to in-person meetings at our downtown conference room in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MonSFFA\u2019s first event of 2026 is the club\u2019s January e-meeting, scheduled for Saturday, January 10, a little over a week from now! We\u2019ll be comparing artificial intelligence as depicted in SF with the AI models currently in development in the real world! We\u2019ll also feature a primer on perspective as a useful guide to producing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33771\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CLUB\u2019S FIRST EVENT OF 2026 SET FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 10!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/33771","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\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33772,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33771\/revisions\/33772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}