{"id":517,"date":"2004-06-28T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2004-06-28T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=517"},"modified":"2004-06-28T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2004-06-28T19:22:48","slug":"con_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Con Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of interesting.  In October, the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis will be host to the Fiddler&#8217;s Green Convention.  From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiddlersgreencon.org\/about.htm\">website<\/a>:<br \/>\n<strong>Fiddler&#8217;s Green will be a Sandman-focused convention at the Millennium Hotel, Minneapolis, 12-14 November 2004. Membership is limited to 500 paid attending members, plus convention guests and staff.<br \/>\nAll proceeds, after the con is over and the bills are paid, will be donated to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbldf.org\/\">Comic Book Legal Defense Fund<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a $100 to register, which for me means $200 to cover myself and a nurse, so I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll go.  I&#8217;ve only been to one con in my whole life, a Star Trek con back in Green Bay in &#8217;88 or &#8217;89.  My reaction then to the whole experience was to get a bit freaked out.  I liked Trek, but I wasn&#8217;t about to put on a uniform and become fluent in Klingon.  I was a fan, but these people were freaks.  Or at least that&#8217;s how my insecure 16-year-old mind perceived it back then.  But I do remember buying a white baseball cap with the United Federation of Planets logo on the front, so I can&#8217;t completely deny my own geek tendencies.  I think it&#8217;d be a blast to go to a con now.  I hope I would be a little less judgmental and simply enjoy the spectacle.  Imagine all the great pictures I could get for the blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is kind of interesting. In October, the Millennium Hotel in Minneapolis will be host to the Fiddler&#8217;s Green Convention. From the website: Fiddler&#8217;s Green will be a Sandman-focused convention at the Millennium Hotel, Minneapolis, 12-14 November 2004. Membership is limited to 500 paid attending members, plus convention guests and staff. All proceeds, after the <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=517' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-con_game","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}