{"id":16146,"date":"2013-06-25T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=16146"},"modified":"2013-06-25T06:26:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T10:26:29","slug":"fans-get-their-fill-of-art-costumes-and-celebrities-at-niagara-falls-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/fans-get-their-fill-of-art-costumes-and-celebrities-at-niagara-falls-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans get their fill of art, costumes and celebrities at Niagara Falls Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/tonawanda-news.com\/local\/x782348041\/Fans-get-their-fill-of-art-costumes-and-celebrities-at-Niagara-Falls-Comic-Con\">Tonawanda News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few years ago, Shannon Neprily was just a Canadian dark fantasy author who had a love affair with Japanese anime, comic book conventions and dressing up with her friends as a character she\u2019d seen on television or in movies.<\/p>\n<p>Together with a group of friends, they\u2019d visit local conventions in full cosplay \u2013 short for costume play \u2013 mode.<\/p>\n<p>But then it all changed, as the St. Catherine\u2019s resident learned she, in fact, had breast cancer. It was during last year\u2019s rendition of Niagara Falls Comic Con she told her friends-in-cosplay. It was an emotional reveal, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year was rough,\u201d she said. \u201cThey had to carry me out of here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Tonawanda News: A few years ago, Shannon Neprily was just a Canadian dark fantasy author who had a love affair with Japanese anime, comic book conventions and dressing up with her friends as a character she\u2019d seen on television or in movies. Together with a group of friends, they\u2019d visit local conventions in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,2],"tags":[2302,8899,7031,8902,8900,7164,8901,41,5730,8903,623],"class_list":["post-16146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-events","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-breast-cancer","tag-comic-book-conventions","tag-comic-con","tag-cosplay","tag-costume-play","tag-costumes","tag-dark-fantasy","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-comic-con","tag-shannon-neprily","tag-tonawanda-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}