{"id":129,"date":"2008-08-08T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-08-08T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T12:57:32","slug":"dragoncon-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/08\/dragoncon-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon*Con Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a title=\"DragonCon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/images\/dc08_frontpage.gif\" alt=\"DragonCon\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>As usual, I will be attending the upcoming <a title=\"DragonCon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.org\/\">Dragon*Con<\/a> convention.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not familiar with it, Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US.\u00a0 Dragon*Con 2008 will be held Labor Day weekend (August 29 &#8211; September 1, 2008) in Atlanta, GA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several of my buddies from <a title=\"The Unique Geek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theuniquegeek.com\/\">THE UNIQUE GEEK<\/a> will also be there.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve started a Dragon*Con countdown over a <a title=\"The Unique Geek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theuniquegeek.com\/\">THE UNIQUE GEEK website<\/a>.\u00a0 The countdown is basically\u00a0daily lists of things to keep in mind and pictures from Dragon*Con&#8217;s past.\u00a0 Check it out!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And if you&#8217;re thinking about going to Dragon*Con, drop me a line!\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li 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