{"id":11241,"date":"2018-09-10T20:07:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11241"},"modified":"2018-09-10T20:07:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T00:07:54","slug":"weekend-postmortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=11241","title":{"rendered":"Weekend postmortem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a Viking gig this weekend.<\/strong> We participated in the Nordic Music Festival in Victoria, Minnesota, just north of the Twin Cities. Short drive, simple event. The weather was ideal, and everyone seemed pretty happy. I\u2019d found one unsold copy of Viking Legacy<\/a><\/em>, so I brought that (and sold it) and I brought a stock of West Oversea<\/a><\/em>. My sales were not bad. I\u2019d had an idea that this wasn\u2019t a very good event for book sales, but I was pleased. Had some good conversations too. Iceland, the Kensington Rune Stone, the sagas. There were two food wagons, and one of them had hot mini-donuts. You can\u2019t do much better than that.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s our set-up. My Viking tent, with its lean-to annex, is on the left. My presentation has evolved over the years from nudging a place in among the others at a long table, to something like an \u201cinstallation,\u201d which involves a certain amount of labor to set up, tear down, and transport. Well, that\u2019s what happens when you keep at it long enough. Thank goodness there\u2019s people willing to help me with the work.<\/p>\n

\"Nordic<\/p>\n

Did some fighting too. Even better, two of the new guys joined me, and carried on after I was tuckered out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had a Viking gig this weekend. We participated in the Nordic Music Festival in Victoria, Minnesota, just north of the Twin Cities. Short drive, simple event. The weather was ideal, and everyone seemed pretty happy. I\u2019d found one unsold copy of Viking Legacy, so I brought that (and sold it) and I brought a stock … Continue reading Weekend postmortem<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2038,3260],"class_list":["post-11241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nordic-music-festival","tag-viking-age-club-and-society-sons-of-norway"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}