{"id":96,"date":"2008-02-20T10:17:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T18:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2008-03-16T20:37:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T04:37:41","slug":"monday-at-pantheacon-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Monday at PantheaCon 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning, I awoke to find that the cold had settled in my throat, giving me a voice that more than one person told me sounded like Tallulah Bankhead&#8217;s.  This is not an entirely bad thing &#8211; if one is making movies &#8211; but wasn&#8217;t exactly what I had in mind for teaching.<\/p>\n<p>Digging around in my traveling medical kit, I found some cold medicine from my last trip to the UK, and washed it down with coffee at breakfast.  Mistake!  About five minutes later, I felt kind of funny. Checking the package after I returned to the room, I (re)discovered that the cold medicine contains caffeine, which I&#8217;d managed to forget in the intervening months.  I did some deep breathing and had managed to regain some equilibrium by the time I reached the room to teach my class.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to have a good crowd of people show up while I was still setting up.  We chatted and had a good time.  My podcast co-hosts &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?page_id=59\" title=\"Rosered\" target=\"_blank\">Rosered<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?page_id=59\" title=\"Artemis\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/?page_id=59\" title=\"Andrew\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew<\/a> &#8211; arrived, wearing polo shirts embroidered with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarot-to-go.net\" title=\"Tarot-To-Go\" target=\"_blank\">Tarot-To-Go<\/a> logo, just like the one they&#8217;d given me on Saturday!  What a wonderful surprise!<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the excess caffeine and the Tallulah Bankhead voice, I managed to make a coherent and fun presentation on the topic of &#8220;Tarot by the Numbers&#8221;.  We talked about the meaning of numbers in the Tarot in our familiar western European system, and also compared meanings across a variety of philosophical\/cultural orientations.  The time flew by, people asked great questions, and suddenly the room monitor was popping in to give me a five minute warning!  People came up afterward and continued to ask questions, and we talked as I packed up.  I felt quite good about the workshop, and am planning to present it again (in a somewhat expanded version) in April in San Francisco &#8211; I just have to confirm the venue, and then I&#8217;ll announce it here.  Stay tuned for details!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday morning, I awoke to find that the cold had settled in my throat, giving me a voice that more than one person told me sounded like Tallulah Bankhead&#8217;s. This is not an entirely bad thing &#8211; if one is making movies &#8211; but wasn&#8217;t exactly what I had in mind for teaching. Digging around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tarotpathways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}