{"id":16984,"date":"2013-06-19T17:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T22:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16984"},"modified":"2013-06-19T17:19:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T22:19:48","slug":"skepchickcon-2013-at-convergence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/skepchickcon-2013-at-convergence\/","title":{"rendered":"SkepchickCON 2013 at CONvergence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/convergence-con.org\/\">CONvergence<\/a> is the world&#8217;s largest fan run science fiction and fantasy convention held in Bloomington, MN on or around July 4th every year.  An informal subset of the activities that occur at this huge gathering of people wearing costumes and stuff is a set of panels organized by Skepchick, focusing on various aspects of skepticism and science.  I&#8217;ll be on a few of the panels this year, as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the poster for the SkepchicCON at CONvergence. Also, donations are needed to help fund this worthy effort. <a href=\"http:\/\/skepchickcon.com\/\">Click here to find out more and donate.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2013\/06\/Skepchickcon-poster.sm_-640x896.jpg?resize=604%2C846\" alt=\"Skepchickcon poster.sm\" width=\"604\" height=\"846\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16985\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONvergence is the world&#8217;s largest fan run science fiction and fantasy convention held in Bloomington, MN on or around July 4th every year. An informal subset of the activities that occur at this huge gathering of people wearing costumes and stuff is a set of panels organized by Skepchick, focusing on various aspects of skepticism &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/skepchickcon-2013-at-convergence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SkepchickCON 2013 at CONvergence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4pW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}