{"id":28,"date":"2008-05-13T22:42:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T06:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-05-13T22:42:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T06:42:17","slug":"nerdfest-2008-should-i-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Nerdfest 2008? Should I go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Blizzard has decided to host a Blizzcon convention for the year 2008 down in Anaheim Oct 10th-11th. As I&#8217;m currently fairly active playing WoW at the moment I&#8217;m tempted to go to learn about their upcoming games, try out Starcraft II, and maybe meet some WoW guildies in real life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been to a convention like this and I&#8217;m not sure I want to go by myself. My &#8220;real life&#8221; friends who play WoW are all still at school and hitting up a convention is probably out for them. Anyone out there ever been to something like Blizzcon (Comic Con, GenCon or some other ConCon)? Is this something that&#8217;s worth going to by oneself or does it need to be experienced with friends. Something tells me it&#8217;s not worth going unless I can <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">drag<\/span> convince someone to come with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Blizzard has decided to host a Blizzcon convention for the year 2008 down in Anaheim Oct 10th-11th. As I&#8217;m currently fairly active playing WoW at the moment I&#8217;m tempted to go to learn about their upcoming games, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/?p=28\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35,31],"tags":[105,106,104,108,107,102,103,109],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-life","category-travel","tag-blizzcon","tag-blizzcon-08","tag-convention","tag-guild","tag-starcraft-ii","tag-world-of-warcraft","tag-wow","tag-wow-guild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jthon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}