{"id":28458,"date":"2008-03-05T13:54:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T18:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/03\/05\/28458-fantasy-festival-2008-news\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T19:50:09","slug":"fantasy-festival-2008-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/03\/05\/28458-fantasy-festival-2008-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Festival 2008 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fantasyfestival2008.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"fantasyfestival2008.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgalignright no-lazyload\" \/><strong>Gloria<\/strong> writes: Join Fantasy Festival 2008, April 26th at the University of Utah Union Building, Salt Lake City, Utah.  Programming starts at 10 am. Fantasy Festival will conclude with a dance that ends at 11pm.  <\/p>\n<p>The schedule includes noted speakers, including Dr. Michael Drout, head of the English department at Wheaton College.   He will be the keynote speaker addressing &#8220;From Middle earth to Hogwarts.&#8221;  Dr. Drout is editor of J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s &#8220;Beowulf and the Critics.&#8221;   In addition he will also present a class on Beowulf.  Further, there will be other scholarly presentations by professors and professionals, including Dr. Stephen Fullmer of Utah Valley University and John Kilgore of Eastern Illinois University. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Aside from the academic tract, there will classes on costuming, prosthetics, makeup, and crafts.  Additionally, there will be a &#8220;Kid&#8217;s room&#8221; which will offer games, activities and crafts.  As part of our fundraiser, silent auction charity baskets, which include, spa treatments, dinners, Sideshow Weta statues, will be auctioned off.   <\/p>\n<p>Into The West, sponsor of this event, is a 501 c 3 Non Profit organization.  Proceeds from this event will benefit the Community Share Program and Reading for the Future.   Please spread the word to your colleagues, students, friends and family.  <\/p>\n<p>This full day event is $20.00 when you register early) and $25.00 at the door.   The website has a direct link to registration and Paypal as well as detailed information on lodging, meals, and vendors.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intothewest.org\/tolkienfest.html\">www.intothewest.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gloria writes: Join Fantasy Festival 2008, April 26th at the University of Utah Union Building, Salt Lake City,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-28458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-conventions","tag-fantasy-festival-2008"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7p0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}