{"id":389,"date":"2008-11-09T22:27:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=389"},"modified":"2008-12-20T17:07:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T15:07:29","slug":"icons-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/389","title":{"rendered":"ICon's Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

ICon's Volunteers<\/strong>
\nTune: Barrett's Privateers, Stan Rogers
\nBased on true stories. All of it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, the year was nineteen-ninety-eight
\n(How I wish I was in BIGOR now!)
\nA call came out for volunteers
\nTo the biggest con in the whole damn year
\n(God damn them all!)
\nI was told we'll just come in and help them fold
\nWe'll lose no sleep
\n(Have no fear!)
\nNow I'm a full-grown man on the verge of tears
\nThe last of ICon's volunteers
\n
\nCarmel and Uri cried the town
\n(How I wish I was in BIGOR now!)
\nFor fifty brave fen, who'll work for days
\nFor eternal glory and zero pay
\n(God damn them all!)\u2026<\/p>\n

In 2001 we had a GoH
\n(How I wish I was in BIGOR now!)
\nA world-class writer, no dispute
\nOne look at him and the crowd went mute
\n(God damn them all!)\u2026<\/p>\n

Of movies we had quite a few
\n(How I wish I was in BIGOR now!)
\nThe image froze and the sound cut out
\nAnd to wake the techie we had to shout
\n(God damn them all!)\u2026<\/p>\n

We tried to find the gaming rooms
\n(How I wish I was in BIGOR now!)
\nFor gladiators with foam swords
\nAnd teenage evil overlords
\n(God damn them all!)\u2026<\/p>\n

The art crew worked like men possessed
\n(How I was I was in BIGOR now!)
\nFor three months' work and a day's get-up
\nThree hours later it looked like crap
\n(God damn them all!)\u2026<\/p>\n

The media hacks, they came to gawk
\n(How I wish I was in BIGOR now!)
\nLaughing at all the geekery
\nUntil we had to get them off the tree
\n(God damn them all!)\u2026<\/p>\n

Us filkers we were there as well
\n(How I wish I was in BIGOR now!)
\nWe were the con's best shining stars!
\nWell, five of us, plus two guitars…
\n(God damn them all!)\u2026<\/p>\n

So here I sit with the passed-out staff\u2026
\n(How I wish I was in BIGOR now\u2026)
\nI've slept three hours in the last three days
\nAnd BIGOR is only four months away!
\n(God damn them all!)
\nI was told we'll just come in and help them fold
\nWe'll lose no sleep
\n(Have no fear!)
\nNow I'm a full-grown man on the verge of tears
\nThe last of ICon's volunteers\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ICon's Volunteers Tune: Barrett's Privateers, Stan Rogers Based on true stories. All of it. Oh, the year was nineteen-ninety-eight (How I wish I was in BIGOR now!) A call came out for volunteers To the biggest con in the whole damn year (God damn them all!) I was told we'll just come in and help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,29,20],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}