{"id":29644,"date":"2008-08-31T21:25:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T02:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=29644"},"modified":"2008-08-31T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T02:25:14","slug":"john-howes-newsletter-a-world-or-two-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2008\/08\/31\/29644-john-howes-newsletter-a-world-or-two-away\/","title":{"rendered":"John Howe&#8217;s Newsletter: A WORLD (OR TWO) AWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/logo_jhowe_home.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[pics28520]\" title=\"John Howe Logo\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/logo_jhowe_home.jpg\" alt=\"John Howe Logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"87\" class=\"attachment wp-att-28519 alignright no-lazyload\" \/><\/a> <strong>Or a Few Days Abroad <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been leery of conventions in North America &#8211; once you&#8217;ve given the convention itself the once-over, there&#8217;s not a lot to do outside the convention itself, unlike European events where there&#8217;s generally much more that&#8217;s worthwhile visiting in the city itself.<\/p>\n<p>Not a problem in San Diego; you can&#8217;t actually manage to see the whole convention, it&#8217;s just too huge; the exhibition hall is about half a mile long and just packed with stalls and booths and huge displays. I diligently put in the footwork &#8211; a LOT of miles, I&#8217;m sure &#8211; but still must have overlooked whole sections. San Diego Comic-Con is pretty much an assemblage of superlatives. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.john-howe.com\/news\/more.php?id=237_0_1_0_C\">John Howe&#8217;s Newsletter: A WORLD (OR TWO) AWAY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or a Few Days Abroad I&#8217;ve always been leery of conventions in North America &#8211; once you&#8217;ve given&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-comiccon","category-events-conventions","category-howe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-7I8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29644","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=29644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}