{"id":15770197,"date":"2025-04-01T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/node615.namehero.net\/~wodehous\/?p=15770197"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:46:36","slug":"convention-1982-delaware-valley-college-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/convention-1982-delaware-valley-college-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"1982: Delaware Valley College, PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Delaware Valley College, Pennsylvania: July 16, 1982<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speaker: David Jasen<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two years after The Wodehouse Society was founded, 13 members and three guests gathered together in founder Bill Blood\u2019s home territory to celebrate P. G. Wodehouse. Led by Bill, eight of them attended a daytime business meeting at which a new constitution was approved and general policies were discussed. Then, in the evening, all 16 assembled at a local inn to engage in some convivial browsing and sluicing. Louise Collins read Isaac Asimov\u2019s foreword to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wodehouse on Crime<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, David Jasen gave a talk on Wodehouse\u2019s life and career, and Paul Taylor and Audrey Ewart read \u201cGoodbye to All Cats.\u201d Before the event, Lady Wodehouse had sent them a note expressing her best wishes, so all present signed a card to send back to her. Thus was the very modest beginning of TWS\u2019s conventions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>See the full report of this convention in\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PL_v3_nr4.pdf\">Plum Lines<\/a><i>, Volume 3, No. 4 (24 July 1982)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaware Valley College, Pennsylvania: July 16, 1982 Speaker: David Jasen Two years after The Wodehouse Society was founded, 13 members and three guests gathered together in founder Bill Blood\u2019s home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15770142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15770197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15770197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15781007,"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15770197\/revisions\/15781007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15770142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15770197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15770197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wodehouse.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15770197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}