{"id":7,"date":"2010-03-09T20:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T03:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/?p=7"},"modified":"2010-03-09T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T03:57:37","slug":"cool-con-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Cool Con Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Metropolis Comic Convention on March 6th &amp; 7th, 2010.&#160; I had a great time, though there were not as many people who attended as I would have liked to have seen.&#160; I will mention an artist, Terry Huddleston, extremely cool and very funny guy.&#160; During some of the con\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slow points, which were many, he would hang out around the table.&#160; You can find out more about Terry at his <a href=\"http:\/\/thuddleston.deviantart.com\/\">DeviantArt website<\/a> or his professional web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heroespress.com\">www.heroespress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But on to the story.&#160; Also in attendance at the con was Gary Friedrich.&#160; You can read about Gary Friedrich on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Friedrich\">Wikipedia<\/a>.&#160; Suffice it to say, Gary is the creator of the modern day Ghost Rider character.&#160; Gary came to my table and started thumbing though some of my books.&#160; He pulled out Original Ghost Rider #8 (I think.) which I believe is a reprint of the first modern Ghost Rider story.&#160; Gary said he needed to run back to his table to grab his money.&#160; I told him to just take the comic, because it will make for a good con story for me.&#160; So, to summarize, I gave Gary Friedrich, the creator of the modern Ghost Rider a copy of a reprint of one of his original stories.&#160; The kicker though, was that Gary took the comic back to his table and stuck it in a pile for people to purchase and have signed.&#160; Oh well.&#160; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Metropolis Comic Convention on March 6th &amp; 7th, 2010.&#160; I had a great time, though there were not as many people who attended as I would have liked to have seen.&#160; I will mention an artist, Terry Huddleston, extremely cool and very funny guy.&#160; During some of the con\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slow points, which [&#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-7","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\/7","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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burgcomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}