{"id":288,"date":"2008-02-11T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=288"},"modified":"2012-02-27T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T14:22:40","slug":"dinner-with-maureen-f-mchugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with Maureen F. McHugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 11, the FACT Reading Group<a href=\"..\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"snap_com_shot_link_icon\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ixnp.com\/images\/v3.19.1\/t.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> took local author Maureen F. McHugh to dinner at Mongolian Grille. We&#8217;d recently read her collection <em>Mothers and Other Monsters<\/em>, and earlier had read her novel <em>Half the Day is Night<\/em>. Between the Reading Group, the author, and her husband, we had sixteen people at dinner.<\/p>\n<p>We talked with Maureen about a variety of things: her  writing, travels  in China, dogs, and her day job as a writer for  alternate reality  games. She told amusing anecdotes about the alternate  reality games she  created for <em>Halo 2<\/em> and Nine Inch<!--more--> Nails. Two  members of our  group were Maureen&#8217;s former students from Clarion, so  we talked a bit  about writing workshops. We complimented her on the  stories in <em>Mothers and Other Monsters<\/em>, and a couple of us got Maureen to sign their copies of the book.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner lasted nearly two hours. Everyone seemed to have a fine time. Thanks to Ms. McHugh for her participation.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211;A. T. Campbell, III<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 11, the FACT Reading Group took local author Maureen F. McHugh to dinner at Mongolian Grille. We&#8217;d recently read her collection Mothers and Other Monsters, and earlier had read her novel Half the Day is Night. Between the Reading Group, the author, and her husband, we had sixteen people at dinner. We talked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fact.org\/reading\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}