{"id":33940,"date":"2013-05-20T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/not-a-cosplayer-was-stirring.html"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:31:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:31:09","slug":"not-a-cosplayer-was-stirring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/not-a-cosplayer-was-stirring.html","title":{"rendered":"Not a Cosplayer Was Stirring"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">&#8230; Not even Mighty Mouse.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m in San Diego for the first part of this week on business, staying in the heavily themed Hard Rock hotel just across the way from the San Diego Convention Center. Since nearly every time I&#39;ve been here in the past decade or two has been to attend Comic Con, it&#39;s kind of weird not seeing any giant movie posters on the hotels, banners on the streets, or comics \/ movies \/ TV \/ anime cosplayers wandering the streets with ginormous bags of swag.<\/p>\n<p>(Also posting this to see if the image problems with the new Google+ API have been resolved.)<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-aV2TWo3xu34\/UZqeT0OmKKI\/AAAAAAAAbe8\/dxCIyFo73tc\/IMG_20130520_103925_058.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/aTbw4nr4txx' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Not even Mighty Mouse. I&#39;m in San Diego for the first part of this week on business, staying in the heavily themed Hard Rock hotel just across the way from the San Diego Convention Center. Since nearly every time I&#39;ve been here in the past decade or two has been to attend Comic Con, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/20\/not-a-cosplayer-was-stirring.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not a Cosplayer Was Stirring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/surviving-the-san-diego-comic-con.html","url_meta":{"origin":33940,"position":0},"title":"Surviving the San Diego Comic Con","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 9-Jul-12 2:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I won't be there this year (sad), but the advice here is good -- especially that having to do with the con size and lines and too-small-for-demand halls. 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