{"id":3373,"date":"2011-07-19T22:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3373"},"modified":"2011-07-19T22:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T02:41:28","slug":"want-to-go-to-comic-con-for-only-2-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/19\/want-to-go-to-comic-con-for-only-2-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to go to Comic-Con for only $2.50?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feel like paying only a $2.50 admission to get in to Comic-Con? You can.  But it won&#8217;t be the one that starts in San Diego  tomorrow, I&#8217;m afraid. And you won&#8217;t be able to get there without a time machine, either.<\/p>\n<p>Because the con I&#8217;m talking about took place in 1967, and in addition to only costing $2.50 to attend or to grab a dealers&#8217; table, hotel rooms started at $7.50.<\/p>\n<p>But if you do happen to have a time machine &#8230; then pay close attention to the details on the flyer below!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1967HoustonComicCon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1967HoustonComicCon-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1967HoustonComicCon\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1967HoustonComicCon-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1967HoustonComicCon-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1967HoustonComicCon.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since every use of the word &#8220;con&#8221; is in &#8220;quotes,&#8221; does that mean the word was still considered suspect slang back then? Or is that just the way they did things in Texas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel like paying only a $2.50 admission to get in to Comic-Con? You can. But it won&#8217;t be the one that starts in San Diego tomorrow, I&#8217;m afraid. And you won&#8217;t be able to get there without a time machine, either. Because the con I&#8217;m talking about took place in 1967, and in addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,58],"class_list":["post-3373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-conventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}