{"id":17063,"date":"2018-03-08T15:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T23:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/?p=17063"},"modified":"2018-03-08T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T23:22:47","slug":"fogcon-folks-bring-things-for-the-petting-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2018\/03\/08\/fogcon-folks-bring-things-for-the-petting-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"FOGcon folks: bring things for the petting zoo!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>FOGcon attendees:<\/p>\r\n<p>Saturday morning in the game room, from 10:30 to 11:45, I\u2019ll be hosting a \u201cgadget and device petting zoo.\u201d I\u2019ll bring a bunch of cool and fun toys and devices to let people try out, but it doesn\u2019t have to be just my stuff; if you have things you think other people would like to try or play with, bring them along!<\/p>\r\n<p>Here\u2019s the writeup:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Bring your nifty gadgets and devices, your gewgaws and gizmos, your stuffies and robots, anything that you want to let people play with. Come try out the latest smartphone, a Bluetooth keyboard that looks like an old typewriter, some very satisfying-feeling faux-stone toy building blocks, a portal gun, assorted fidget spinners, and more.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I hosted a similar event at the WisCon Gathering last year, and it went pretty well. I found that visitors ignored the books and graphic novels I brought, and didn\u2019t pay any attention to the ceramic knife, but they loved the fidget spinners and the Qwerkywriter keyboard and various other things.<\/p>\r\n<p>I view the event as partly a way to let people play with fun stuff, and partly a way to let people try things out in person that they might\u2019ve seen pictures of but might have been uncertain about.<\/p>\r\n<p>Note that there\u2019s a chance that anything you bring will get broken or lost, so don\u2019t bring anything irreplaceable.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conventions","category-gadgets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17064,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions\/17064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}