{"id":1504,"date":"2026-07-03T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:20:17","slug":"conventions-are-expensive-but-i-must-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Conventions are expensive but I must go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK xD here is a thing I just realized. Why are convention tickets so incredibly expensive? I was looking at the lineup for the upcoming sci-fi and horror con and my jaw literally dropped to the floor. I need to go to the thing but my wallet says absolutely NOT ME! SOMEBODY HALP! I just want to buy all the fanart and see the panels and maybe get a picture with some of the cast of Teen Wolf or The Vampire Diaries. Is that really too much to ask from the universe? I have been saving up my pennies but I might have to survive entirely on ramen noodles for the next month if I want to afford a weekend pass. But honestly seeing all the amazing cosplay and being surrounded by fellow geeks who won&#8217;t judge me for talking about vampires and hunters for three hours straight is totally worth it. I guess I am going to be broke xD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK xD here is a thing I just realized. Why are convention tickets so incredibly expensive? I was looking at the lineup for the upcoming sci-fi and horror con and my jaw literally dropped to the floor. I need to go to the thing but my wallet says absolutely NOT ME! SOMEBODY HALP! I just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,23,24],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fan","tag-conventions","tag-fandom","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezeppo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}