{"id":5275,"date":"2009-09-13T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2009-09-13T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T16:42:37","slug":"update-for-91309","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=5275","title":{"rendered":"Update for 9\/13\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New review for King Cat #67 by John Porcellino (also available in the store) and Pale Fire by M.K. Reed.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve decided to start an &#8220;official&#8221; fundraiser, or at least it&#8217;ll be as official as anything around here.\u00c2\u00a0 I need comics and don&#8217;t have much in the way of disposable income, so I&#8217;ve figured out a couple of solutions: either order more stuff from the internets or attend SPX in a couple of weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 Either one of those things takes money, driving to SPX would take a bit more money.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll break it down for you, as it currently sits in my head.<\/p>\n<p>$0 &#8211; Time to start reviewing my old Super Villain Team-Up pile<\/p>\n<p>$1-10: Buy beer<\/p>\n<p>$11-15: Buy slightly better beer<\/p>\n<p>$16-150: Buy comics online<\/p>\n<p>$151-infinity: Drive to SPX, either sleep in car or cheap hotel if the money I receive is closer to infinity.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, if you don&#8217;t want me drinking you might as well order more than $15 worth of comics all by yourself.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been ages since I&#8217;ve been to a non-SPACE convention and would love to get to SPX, if it&#8217;s even remotely possible.\u00c2\u00a0 The convention is September 26 &amp; 27, so this fundraiser will go a little less than two weeks (and I&#8217;ll post updates about itif the situation warrants it) starting&#8230; now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New review for King Cat #67 by John Porcellino (also available in the store) and Pale Fire by M.K. Reed.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve decided to start an &#8220;official&#8221; fundraiser, or at least it&#8217;ll be as official as anything around here.\u00c2\u00a0 I need comics and don&#8217;t have much in the way of disposable income, so I&#8217;ve figured out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}