{"id":47777,"date":"2025-11-15T14:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47777\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:33:08","slug":"view-from-a-hotel-window-11-15-25-jacksonville-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47777\/","title":{"rendered":"View From a Hotel Window, 11\/15\/25: Jacksonville, FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-date text-center\">\n<p>\t\t\tPosted on\t\t\t<a class=\"post-date-link\" href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2025\/11\/15\/view-from-a-hotel-window-11-15-25-jacksonville-fl\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 15, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\tPosted by\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/author\/scalzi\/\" title=\"Posts by John Scalzi\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Scalzi<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t \u00a0\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"481\" data-attachment-id=\"58268\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2025\/11\/15\/view-from-a-hotel-window-11-15-25-jacksonville-fl\/pxl_20251115_135214837-mp_\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatever.scalzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251115_135214837.MP_.jpg?fit=4080%2C3072&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4080,3072\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"PXL_20251115_135214837.MP_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatever.scalzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251115_135214837.MP_.jpg?fit=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatever.scalzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251115_135214837.MP_.jpg?fit=4080%2C3072&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PXL_20251115_135214837.MP_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-000000-border-color wp-image-58268\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"338\" data-attachment-id=\"48641\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2023\/08\/09\/post-mortem-on-ohio-issue-1\/whsjohns2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatever.scalzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WHSJohnS2.jpg?fit=225%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,338\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WHSJohnS2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatever.scalzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WHSJohnS2.jpg?fit=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/whatever.scalzi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WHSJohnS2.jpg?fit=225%2C338&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WHSJohnS2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color has-000000-border-color wp-image-48641\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Folks, I think we may have hit the parking lot motherlode here: Three parking lots and a parking garage! Another city is going to have work very hard to ever beat Jacksonville\u2019s bounty here. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in town for <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxpubliclibrary.libnet.info\/event\/14460001\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an event at the Jacksonville Public Library, starting at 1pm<\/a>: I\u2019ll be interviewed, do an audience Q&amp;A, and then sign books. Come on down and see me.<\/p>\n<p>Then when it\u2019s done I go back home and write like the wind, after all I have a novel to finish before (mumble mumble mumble). The life of a science fiction writer is always intense, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JS<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u2190 <a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2025\/11\/14\/a-night-at-the-academy-is\/\" rel=\"prev nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Night at The Academy Is<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on November 15, 2025 \u00a0\u00a0 Posted by John Scalzi \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Folks, I think we may have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-47777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}