{"id":42026,"date":"2014-05-16T15:35:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T21:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/16\/all-fandom-explained.html"},"modified":"2014-05-16T16:12:28","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T22:12:28","slug":"all-fandom-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/16\/all-fandom-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"All Fandom Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">From comics to movies to TV to books to music to &#8230; well, politics and religion, frankly.<\/p>\n<p>(via <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110003573376566014060\" oid=\"110003573376566014060\">Geeks are Sexy<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorktower.com\/2014\/05\/14\/fandom-dont-be-ths-guy-dork-tower-14-05-14\/\">http:\/\/www.dorktower.com\/2014\/05\/14\/fandom-dont-be-ths-guy-dork-tower-14-05-14\/<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-M1K41_cU_nY\/U3aEKnLn59I\/AAAAAAACulM\/wMHhSz1_Uss\/DorkTower1201%5B1%5D.gif?imgmax=1024' 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\/YhknvkN76oh' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From comics to movies to TV to books to music to &#8230; well, politics and religion, frankly. 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