{"id":2837,"date":"2017-08-17T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T09:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2017-08-17T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T09:23:59","slug":"wear-your-badge-at-all-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2837","title":{"rendered":"Wear Your Badge At All Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up my badge &amp; assorted paraphernalia on Wednesday, around midday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-24909672.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-96 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>The colour stripe behind the badge is my <i>ALLY<\/i> badge ribbon from last year. In this situation, I suspect, it looks more like <i>CLOSETED<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The folks who do those ribbons (Tabletop Gamers) had a last-minute fundraising campaign, after their sponsor had to drop out, and raised 200% funding in about 48 hours. I&#8217;d thrown in some money, so I went along to an event they&#8217;d be at, to get my <i>&nbsp;SPONSOR <\/i>badge ribbon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1010259436.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1010259436.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2835 alignnone size-full\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1778\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;d offered to post them out, but being in the UK, I told them to save their money.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that Jeff, who organised it, had saved the mail out thingy anyway;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-995705656.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-995705656.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2836 alignnone size-full\" width=\"999\" height=\"562\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up my badge &amp; assorted paraphernalia on Wednesday, around midday. The colour stripe behind the badge is my ALLY badge ribbon from last year. In this situation, I suspect, it looks more like CLOSETED. The folks who do those ribbons (Tabletop Gamers) had a last-minute fundraising campaign, after their sponsor had to drop out, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gen-con-2017","category-holiday-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-JL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}