{"id":5754,"date":"2009-06-29T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T12:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/06\/29\/skepchickcon-is-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2009-06-29T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T12:38:23","slug":"skepchickcon-is-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/29\/skepchickcon-is-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Skepchickcon is this weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Skepchickcon<\/em> is a Track at <em>Convergence 2009<\/em>.  <em>Convergence 2009<\/em> is one of those science fiction conventions where everyone dresses up as Klingons and such.  I&#8217;ve never been to one but I&#8217;ve sure seen plenty of them on TV and in the movies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Skepchickcon<\/em> is a &#8220;Track,&#8221; which means it is a series of panels and stuff integrated with systematic planned partying parallel to other &#8220;Tracks&#8221; at the convention.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m on three of the panels: <strong>Blogging Skeptically<\/strong>; <strong>Science Online<\/strong>, and <strong>Evolution 101<\/strong>.  Plus I&#8217;ll try to attend some of the parties.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my schedule:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/cvg2009.sched.org\/gregladen\/embed' height='450' width='500' frameborder='0' border='1' scrolling='auto'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m less sure about the July 3rd stuff, but I&#8217;ll do what I can.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/blog\/?page_id=7230\">There is much more information available about Convergence and 2009, as well as the Skepchickcon Skeptics track here at Skepchick.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=62279163619&#038;ref=mf\"><br \/>\nThere is also a facebook page here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyone else going? Who\/what are you dressing up as?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skepchickcon is a Track at Convergence 2009. Convergence 2009 is one of those science fiction conventions where everyone dresses up as Klingons and such. I&#8217;ve never been to one but I&#8217;ve sure seen plenty of them on TV and in the movies. Skepchickcon is a &#8220;Track,&#8221; which means it is a series of panels and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/29\/skepchickcon-is-this-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skepchickcon is this weekend!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1uO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754"}],"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=5754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}