{"id":23,"date":"2010-06-08T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T23:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2010-06-08T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T23:18:58","slug":"heroes-convention-charlotte-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Heroes Convention, Charlotte NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heroesonline.com\/heroescon\/\">Heroes Convention<\/a> in Charlotte, NC on Friday June 4, 2010.&#160; Talk about an amazing event.&#160; Heroes Con may be the best pure comic book convention in the country.&#160; I was listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicgeekspeak.com\/\">Comics Geek Speak<\/a> podcast and heard an advertisement for it.&#160; The family and I went to vacation this year to Tybee Island, GA.&#160; Since Charlotte, NC was not a huge amount out of the way, I decided to come back through and check it out.&#160; I was really blown away.&#160; I only allowed myself about five hours of time at the con and it was nowhere near enough time.&#160; There were over 300 artists there signing autographs and selling sketches and prints.&#160; Some of the big names in attendance included Mike Mignola of Hellboy fame and Michael Golden, who I remember best from the Micronauts.&#160; Also in attendance was Kid Domino.&#160; He is an artist from Indianapolis, IN.&#160; I have one of his prints of Captain America on my office wall.&#160; I am definitely going to consider a return to Heroes Con in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to attend Heroes Convention in Charlotte, NC on Friday June 4, 2010.&#160; Talk about an amazing event.&#160; Heroes Con may be the best pure comic book convention in the country.&#160; I was listening to the Comics Geek Speak podcast and heard an advertisement for it.&#160; The family and I went to vacation [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comcis","category-cons","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}