{"id":4276,"date":"2024-08-01T11:45:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T10:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2024-08-02T01:10:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T00:10:01","slug":"wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=4276","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Day Zero” of Gen Con; Most of the setup is done, and lines from for folks getting badges & merch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did go to the wednesday night social event, The Stink, for a while, but it was pretty loud & oddly hot, so I left pretty early & found somewhere quieter & cooler to be. Happy with that decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wound up having dinner with some friends, then wandering the halls of the ICC looking at the shiny things in the display cabinets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Attempt at a sunrise picture <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The “Block Party” area, where food stalls & food trucks will happen; It will be very warm & very loud <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More of the Block Party <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We all know which number these go to<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I still question the notion of a spillable staining food on new carpet <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The ever-growing line for merch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Merch line again <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Probably the shortest that Will Call line (for badges & tickets) is going to be for the rest of the con<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Balloon Sculpture <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A Lone Sentinel Guards The Portal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Day Zero” of Gen Con; Most of the setup is done, and lines from for folks getting badges & merch. I did go to the wednesday night social event, The Stink, for a while, but it was pretty loud & oddly hot, so I left pretty early & found somewhere quieter & cooler to be. […]<\/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":[33,91,72,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gencon","category-gen-con-2024","category-holiday","category-holiday-2024"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-16Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","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=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}