{"id":780,"date":"2011-04-19T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T02:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=780"},"modified":"2011-04-19T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T02:15:02","slug":"my-fellow-nerds-and-i-will-retire-to-the-nerdery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2011\/04\/my-fellow-nerds-and-i-will-retire-to-the-nerdery\/","title":{"rendered":"My Fellow Nerds And I Will Retire To The Nerdery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw an ad on the CTA for this year&#8217;s <a title=\"Last year had nearly 20,000 people!\" href=\"http:\/\/acen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime Central<\/a> &#8211; The Midwest Anime and Manga Convention. Over the last five years, I&#8217;ve heard about this yearly event but always after it takes place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/acen.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-781  aligncenter\" title=\"Nerds will be coming down from the rafters.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/acen-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/acen-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/acen.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After hearing about the convention this time around before it happens, I might actually attend. However, a lot of that depends on the guests and  musicians they line up (a few years ago they had the Pillows!). If I find out <a title=\"It's Spike Spiegel!\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steven_Blum\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Jay Blum<\/a> will be in attendance, that might be all that is needed.<\/p>\n<p>The ball&#8217;s in your court, Anime Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw an ad on the CTA for this year&#8217;s Anime Central &#8211; The Midwest Anime and Manga Convention. Over the last five years, I&#8217;ve heard about this yearly event but always after it takes place. After hearing about the convention this time around before it happens, I might actually attend. However, a lot [&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":[9,52],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anime","tag-nerd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}