{"id":933,"date":"2012-05-22T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/?p=933"},"modified":"2026-04-26T15:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:51:23","slug":"shitways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/news\/shitways\/","title":{"rendered":"Shitways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/shitways\/shitways.png\" rel=\"lightbox[933]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/shitways\/shitways-530x332.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"One of the two airlines servicing Gotland decided to stop doing so, today. Thank you very much.\" width=\"530\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/shitways\/shitways-530x332.png 530w, https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/shitways\/shitways-1024x642.png 1024w, https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/shitways\/shitways.png 1067w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grendel-games.com\/\">Grendel Games<\/a>&#8216; founder (and <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/news\/speakers-and-jury-so-far\/\">GGC Juror<\/a>) Jan-Jaap made an astute observation; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201chave you considered that maybe GGC is cursed w.r.t. air-travel in some way?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>HA! Let\u2019s review:<\/strong><br \/>\n2010: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/apr\/15\/iceland-volcano-ash-flights-cancelled\">volcano eruption<\/a>. European flights cancelled.<br \/>\n2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.marketwatch.com\/2011-05-24\/general\/30777401_1_icelandic-volcano-ash-cloud-vatnajokull\">volcano eurupts AGAIN<\/a>. European flights threatened.<br \/>\n2012: Skyways &#8211; one of the two airlines servicing Visby &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyways.se\/\">files for bankruptcy<\/a> the day before the expected delivery of 26 of our international guests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/shitways\/fuuuuu.png\" rel=\"lightbox[933]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/shitways\/fuuuuu.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"fuuuuu\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-936\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What travel-related catastrophy will befall GGC 2013? Let loose your inner Nostradamus <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/news\/shitways\/#comments\">in the comments<\/a>, please. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grendel Games&#8216; founder (and GGC Juror) Jan-Jaap made an astute observation; \u201chave you considered that maybe GGC is cursed w.r.t. air-travel in some way?\u201d HA! Let\u2019s review: 2010: volcano eruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}