{"id":155,"date":"2009-08-12T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/08\/12\/13-days-on-the-road-part-4\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:45:41","slug":"13-days-on-the-road-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2009\/08\/12\/13-days-on-the-road-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Days On The Road (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Otherwise known as \u201cThe Hugos: Faraway So Close\u201d. It\u2019s an honor to be nominated for the Hugo Award and I\u2019ve been graced with that recognition five consecutive years for Best Professional Artist. It\u2019s rarified air to be on the Hugo ballot any year. I\u2019ve been fortunate to breathe it in these five years. However, I\u2019ve never reached the Hugo mountaintop and won the shiny rocketship trophy. I lost again this past Sunday night, finishing in second place. This year, according to the final numbers, I came achingly close<\/a>, but that doesn\u2019t matter. Donato Giancola<\/a> won the prize, and it\u2019s his third Hugo Award in four years. Donato knows how much I respect him and his work, and let me take this opportunity to publicly salute him and offer my heartfelt congrats. He\u2019s a friend, a class act all the way, and one of the all-time greats. You earned it, man.<\/p>\n

Big congrats out to John Scalzi<\/a>, Neil Gaiman<\/a>, David Anthony Durham<\/a>, Stephen Segal<\/a>, Ann Vandermeer<\/a>, Cheryl Morgan<\/a>, John Klima<\/a> and all who earned their Hugos this past Sunday night. <\/p>\n

As for me, back to the art life. Back to trying to get better as an artist and back to pushing myself a little further every day. Thanks to all who nominated and voted for me this year. I\u2019m deeply honored and very much appreciate it. Many of you came to me with well wishes before and after the process took its course. Thank you.<\/span> With hard work and luck, perhaps my work will prove worthy of your consideration again in 2010, and if so, we\u2019ll see what happens then. Back to work.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Otherwise known as \u201cThe Hugos: Faraway So Close\u201d. It\u2019s an honor to be nominated for the Hugo Award and I\u2019ve been graced with that recognition five consecutive years for Best Professional Artist. It\u2019s rarified air to be on the Hugo ballot any year. I\u2019ve been fortunate to breathe it in these five years. However, I\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-2v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}