{"id":813,"date":"2026-07-31T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=813"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T19:25:10","slug":"ill-be-presenting-at-balisage-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Be Presenting at Balisage Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Less than a week to my Balisage 2026 presentation, as I write this. It will be my last full Balisage presentation ever &#8212; I&#8217;ll give a shorter one later that same day, for the Open Mic session &#8212; and right now, I am dreading it. First of all, I&#8217;m not done with the slides. I&#8217;m not done rehearsing. I never am at this stage, but that&#8217;s not it. This one needs to be good, see, better than anything before it. I&#8217;m terrified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wondering if my peers are feeling the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a week to my Balisage 2026 presentation, as I write this. It will be my last full Balisage presentation ever &#8212; I&#8217;ll give a shorter one later that same day, for the Open Mic session &#8212; and right now, I am dreading it. First of all, I&#8217;m not done with the slides. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgmlguru.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}