{"id":1321,"date":"2007-09-07T19:14:44","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T23:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2007-09-07T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T23:14:44","slug":"on-weekend-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1321","title":{"rendered":"On Weekend Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicon.com\/baltimore\/\">Baltimore Comic-Con<\/a> this weekend.  Work was offering free passes, so how could I resist? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been to a comic convention before, so this will be a new experience.  Two things strike me as odd.  First, programming seems <i>really<\/i> light.  And second, it&#8217;s over at <i>six<\/i>?!?  Sorry, I&#8217;m used to cons where I&#8217;m there when the bar closes in the wee hours of the morning, which is the point when things are just getting warmed up.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, you know what?  Different standards completely. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p>Note to self.  Take business cards.  Potential networking opportunities.  So noted.<\/p>\n<p>This is gonna be cool.<\/p>\n<p>Pick up the subway, take it into downtown, and hoof it five blocks.<\/p>\n<p>This will be good practice, actually.  When the temperatures fall in the next month, I&#8217;m planning on trying the Baltimore public transit system to get to work.  The subway terminus is near the house, and the light rail runs right past the office building.  I&#8217;m thinking &mdash; take the subway downtown, and head back out on the light rail to Timonium.  I like this idea.  It&#8217;s environmentally friendly.  Think globally, act locally, all that.<\/p>\n<p>I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Baltimore Comic-Con.  This weekend.  Rock and roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be at the Baltimore Comic-Con this weekend. Work was offering free passes, so how could I resist? \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;ve never been to a comic convention before, so this will be a new experience. Two things strike me as odd. First, programming seems really light. And second, it&#8217;s over at six?!? Sorry, I&#8217;m used to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1321\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Weekend Plans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[411],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-baltimore-comic-con","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}