{"id":6500,"date":"2012-06-20T19:49:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T00:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2012-06-20T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T00:49:50","slug":"on-lining-up-future-conventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6500","title":{"rendered":"On Lining Up Future Conventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started the process to apply for press credentials for this October&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkcomiccon.com\/\">New York Comic Con<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning I read an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/2012\/06\/19\/new-york-comic-con-no-more-on-site-press-reg\/\">Comics Beat<\/a> about the press application process &mdash; and it <i>is<\/i> a process &mdash; and since I have to hold down the fort at the office every July when San Diego happens, I thought to myself, well, why <i>not<\/i> New York?<\/p>\n<p>The first step of the process was to fill out an online questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p>The second step of the process, which I&#8217;ve not completed as yet, is to complete a five-page application and submit with it three published articles on comics (for which I will have to explain why they&#8217;re not bylined), my business card, and my boss&#8217; business card.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to weed out the chafe, I guess. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The application isn&#8217;t a priority at the moment.  I&#8217;ll look at it over the weekend and knock it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started the process to apply for press credentials for this October&#8217;s New York Comic Con. Yesterday morning I read an article on Comics Beat about the press application process &mdash; and it is a process &mdash; and since I have to hold down the fort at the office every July when San Diego happens,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6500\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Lining Up Future Conventions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4092,50,208],"class_list":["post-6500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-comic-books","tag-convention","tag-new-york","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500","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=6500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}