{"id":14,"date":"2006-10-22T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/?p=14"},"modified":"2012-02-29T21:24:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T05:24:03","slug":"oni-con-the-first-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/oni-con-the-first-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Oni-Con &#8212; the first two days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><![CDATA[I've got just a second to write--got to get ready for church in a few minutes, but I wanted to give some impression so far during Oni-Con.\n\n\nThe Con started Friday, and I got there about 2:30.  Security head told me to go check on registration and keep an eye on the lines there; no problem.  Well, pre-reg was moving slow, and walk-in was too.  I ended up helping with the walk-in badges; I have a loud voice and people could hear me when I called their names!  There were a few irate con-goers who were annoyed at having to wait in line so long, but nobody was really a cause of problems for the staff.   So, at this point, I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;m security or registration staff&#8230;\n\n\nI did get to see the Amano Cosplay Showcase on Friday afternoon.  There were some amazing costumes entered, and the attention to detail was fantastic.  I can&#8217;t say which costume won (I&#8217;m not real familiar with Amano&#8217;s designs) but they were all quite impressive.  Those are the first pictures in the gallery that I&#8217;ll post soon.\n\n\nWent home about 11:30 Friday night, and back at 9:30 on Saturday.  Back to registration to help there.  Calling out names again&#8230;I&#8217;m going to lose my voice before the weekend is over.\n\n\nAttended a voice actor panel on Saturday afternoon.  Scott McNeil, Johnny Young Bosch, Carrie Savage and others talked, joked and gave their stories to an attentative audience.  The Q&#038;A was fun; Scott McNeil is a riot, and always has a ready answer and a voice to go with it.  I stayed through most of the panel, and got some good pictures of some of the actors, as well as a few of con-goers in costume in the panel room.\n\n\nSaturday evening the cosplay contest went well (although quite long).  I helped with seating as security, and then got to take a front-rwo seat to show pictures of the walk-on costumers.  I didn&#8217;t stay for the skits; most of them are usually inside jokes or involve series that I haven&#8217;t see or have no interest in.   Went back to registration to follow up, and ended up playing security escort for the registration close-out.  Got to sit around the green room after that, and watched Ultimate Avenger 2 on Cartoon Network, then I went home.<br \/>\n]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-and-manga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.noidea.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}