{"id":342,"date":"2009-06-12T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/12\/brickworld-2009\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T05:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T05:14:57","slug":"brickworld-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/12\/brickworld-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Brickworld 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 15px; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mwhuffman\/626417058\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1111\/626417058_895cfaa239.jpg\" alt=\"Public Day Crowd, IV\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mwhuffman\/626417058\/\">Public Day Crowd, IV<\/a>,<br \/>\noriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/mwhuffman\/\">mhuffman<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>So there&#8217;s less than a week until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickworld.us\/\">Brickworld 2009<\/a> in Chicago. And this year it&#8217;s going to be crazy with over 550+ attendees! Display space ran out around the beginning of May, but everyone is encouraged to bring their MOCs just in case &#8212; generally people sign up for too much display space, so squeezing in more creations shouldn&#8217;t be a problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Which reminds me, I need to build some this weekend!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never been to a AFOL convention, you need to make the effort to go to one.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll find out there&#8217;s hundreds of people who love LEGO just as much as you do &#8212; excitement, creative synergies, sense of child-like wonder and amazement, laughter&#8230; there&#8217;s a lot of things not captured in photos of these events, that one misses out on.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=brickbuildr\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Day Crowd, IV, originally uploaded by mhuffman. So there&#8217;s less than a week until Brickworld 2009 in Chicago. And<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","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":[22,5,47],"tags":[535,630,612],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brickworld","category-community","category-convention","tag-afols","tag-chicago","tag-tlg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMsl-5w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}