{"id":2903,"date":"2017-08-22T15:11:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2017-08-22T15:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T14:11:04","slug":"monday-the-moon-goddess-takes-the-sun-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=2903","title":{"rendered":"Monday: The Moon Goddess Takes The Sun From Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven &amp; Moni checked out on Monday morning, with half of the vendor hall, it seems.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1215686900.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-161 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not 100% on this, but I <i>think <\/i>that&#8217;s a section of a Crystal Caste booth poking out from behind the suitcase.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Did brunch with a friend from Chicago, for whom this was her very firse Gen Con, so it was great fun hearing about all of the stuff she&#8217;d done &amp; seen.<br \/>\nAnd then there was the eclipse.<br \/>\nNaturally, it was cloudy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put up all of the photos I took, but selfie camera through filter glasses from a magazine slipcover that I filched from the Metropolitan Lounge in Chicago does not make for a great shot.<br \/>\nCould maybe have tried to use the main camera, with a bigger lens, but this is realistically a job for a solarscope, not a cellphone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1942333422.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-163 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1940364338.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-164 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1002740470.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-165 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-622694714.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-166 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-745156896.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-167 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1484037154.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-168 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1192950557.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-169 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>It took one of the other folks <i>(I&#8217;d set up on a low wall at the entrance to White River Park, and various other folks wandered oer to join me; There were people outside the hotel across the road too, but the wall option meant that you could sit, and eclipses tke a while) <\/i>to point out that it felt cooler as the eclipse happened. It never got darker than &#8220;Storm&#8217;s A-Comin&#8217; &#8220;, but even with no clouds in the way, you couldn&#8217;t really feel the sun on your skin, and for the first time since I&#8217;d been there, the air didn&#8217;t feel hot and humid.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And to close this post out, I found the sketch I tried to do of a Cat wearing plate-mail.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/wp-image-1294030377.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-170 alignnone size-full\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not good at drawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven &amp; Moni checked out on Monday morning, with half of the vendor hall, it seems. I&#8217;m not 100% on this, but I think that&#8217;s a section of a Crystal Caste booth poking out from behind the suitcase. Did brunch with a friend from Chicago, for whom this was her very firse Gen Con, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2903","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-KP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","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=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}