{"id":599,"date":"2002-09-03T17:47:59","date_gmt":"2002-09-04T00:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/09\/03\/599.html"},"modified":"2002-09-03T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2002-09-04T00:47:59","slug":"numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/09\/03\/numbers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Meant to mention that although WorldCon (at around 5000 attendees) is the biggest gathering of the broad books-and-stuff side of the sf world, it's actually rather small compared to some other events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragoncon.com\/\">DragonCon<\/a>, for example, is the same weekend as WorldCon, and tends to bring in about 20,000 people.  It's focused more on media fandom: games, movies, TV, comics, etc.  I don't think I can imagine a 20,000-person con.<\/p>\n<p>Burning Man this year clocked in at 29,000 people.  It's not a con, of course, but there are similarities, or so I gather.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comic-con.org\/\">San Diego Comic Con<\/a> apparently attracts 50,000 people every year.  Ten times the size of WorldCon.  The population of a small city.  That's just mind-boggling.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meant to mention that although WorldCon (at around 5000 attendees) is the biggest gathering of the broad books-and-stuff side of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}