{"id":448,"date":"2018-03-13T08:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T12:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/?p=448"},"modified":"2018-03-15T01:50:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T05:50:59","slug":"king-con-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/blog\/2018\/03\/13\/king-con-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"King Con 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thecomicbooks.com\/pics\/_data\/i\/upload\/2018\/03\/11\/20180311230856-c6345921-la.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Fowler at King Con 2018\" width=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Fowler at King Con 2018<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I attended a local convention in Kingston, Ontario called King Con. It was held this year at Sydenham Street United Church at 82 Sydenham Street. I personally enjoyed the show and chatting with some creators, some I hadn&#8217;t seen in several years.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.95em;\">Some of the creators include: J. Torres, Andrew Wheeler, Attila Adorjany, Kat Verhoeven, Tom Fowler,\u00a0Craig A. Taillefer,\u00a0Andrew Thomas, Salgood Sam,\u00a0San Noir, Dan Day\u00a0and more. Andrew Wheeler did a panel on the history of LGBTQ Superheroes which I recorded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was also a popular magic show, which I enjoyed as the magician (James Harrison)\u00a0had a very good act. I was talking with him earlier and he was doing the whole &#8216;find the ball&#8217; trick on me with.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of Saturday there was a cosplay contest that was mainly aimed at kids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thecomicbooks.com\/pics\/index.php?\/category\/118-king_con_2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pictures are here<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thecomicbooks.com\/audio.html#KingCon2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audio is here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the cosplay contest is here (recorded and posted with permission):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ttavix0Okxw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended a local convention in Kingston, Ontario called King Con. It was held this year at Sydenham Street United Church at 82 Sydenham Street. I personally enjoyed the show and chatting with some creators, some I hadn&#8217;t seen in several years. Some of the creators include: J. Torres, Andrew Wheeler, Attila Adorjany, Kat Verhoeven, Tom Fowler,\u00a0Craig A. Taillefer,\u00a0Andrew Thomas, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,61,32],"tags":[469,464,465,67,468,472,475,463,474,466,62,473,476,470,471,467,477],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-conventions","category-history","tag-andrew-thomas","tag-andrew-wheeler","tag-attila-adorjany","tag-cosplay","tag-craig-a-taillefer","tag-dan-day","tag-glados","tag-j-torres","tag-james-harrison","tag-kat-verhoeven","tag-king-con","tag-magic","tag-portal","tag-salgood-sam","tag-san-noir","tag-tom-fowler","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamiecoville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}