{"id":448,"date":"2007-01-12T11:13:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/2007\/01\/12\/comic-book-signing-and-cardboard-hot-tub-party\/"},"modified":"2015-03-02T21:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T04:11:58","slug":"comic-book-signing-and-cardboard-hot-tub-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/comic-book-signing-and-cardboard-hot-tub-party\/","title":{"rendered":"comic book signing and cardboard hot tub party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/jessicathompson\/\">Jessica Thompson<\/a> writes me from Toronto to go to this exhibition opening tomorrow (she&#8217;s familiar with some of the people involved). There are always so many things going on so you&#8217;re looking for the odd-thing-out or the event a little off-kilter. This might be it. (Plus it comes from Jessica&#8217;s recommendation and she&#8217;s good people so I trust her judgement)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmainewheatley.com\/\">Charmaine Wheatley<\/a> will be having a standard opening and book signing for a new comic, but the event is to be followed by a &#8216;cardboard hot tub party&#8217; &#8211; need I say more?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image446\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/front-1.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"charmaine wheatley card front\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image447\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/back.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"charmaine wheatley card back\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(I mean, I love cardboard, I love hot tubs, and I love speedos &#8211; <em>perfect trio combo!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my friend Jessica Thompson writes me from Toronto to go to this exhibition opening tomorrow (she&#8217;s familiar with some of the people involved). There are always so many things going on so you&#8217;re looking for the odd-thing-out or the event a little off-kilter. This might be it. (Plus it comes from Jessica&#8217;s recommendation and she&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3],"tags":[999,743],"series":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-event","tag-exhibition","tag-opening"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/front-1.jpg?fit=500%2C331&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-7e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}