{"id":9528,"date":"2011-09-01T19:17:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T02:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=9528"},"modified":"2011-09-01T19:17:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T02:17:18","slug":"comic-con-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/?p=9528","title":{"rendered":"Comic Con Strikes Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read the Kindle single &#8220;Comic-Con Strikes Again!&#8221; and I LOVED it!  Super quick read. But if you are a Con attendee &#8211; you will giggle :) The writer hits it SPOT ON.  The frustrations, the lines, the commercialism but also the pure fan joy :)<\/p>\n<p>He also hits the nail on the the head with his note about Star Wars:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Star Wars is the closest thing the culture of Comic-Con has to a single story that unites it: the myth that can support endless allusions that will be universally understood, at least here. Not a lot of us know who, say, minor Biblical characters were, as we might have a few centuries ago, but we know Jango Fett.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So true&#8230; :)<\/p>\n<p>If you have a Kindle, it&#8217;s $0.99. And short. If you&#8217;ve ever been to SDCC, you will laugh. If not, you will probably shake your head and wonder what is wrong with us attendees. Entertaining either way :)<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=a99kitsmusing-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as4&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;asins=B005FHHFQ0\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read the Kindle single &#8220;Comic-Con Strikes Again!&#8221; and I LOVED it! Super quick read. But if you are a Con attendee &#8211; you will giggle :) The writer hits it SPOT ON. The frustrations, the lines, the commercialism but also the pure fan joy :) He also hits the nail on the the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,37,29],"tags":[553,938,554,1234],"class_list":["post-9528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksreading","category-pop-culture","category-star-wars","tag-comic-con","tag-douglas-wolk","tag-sdcc","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9530,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions\/9530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/a99kitten.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}