{"id":373356,"date":"2010-02-28T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2010-02-28T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:00:59","slug":"two-grassroot-skeptic-events-coming-up-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/373356","title":{"rendered":"Two grassroot skeptic events coming up | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two skeptical events coming up you should know about:<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/skepchicamp.eventbrite.com\/?ref=ebtn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/02\/skepchickcamplogo.jpg\" alt=\"skepchickcamplogo\" title=\"skepchickcamplogo\" width=\"610\" height=\"111\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11976\"\/><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"> <\/p>\n<p>1) The first <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/skepchicamp.eventbrite.com\/?ref=ebtn\">Skepchicamp<\/a>, a skepticamp thrown by the Skepchicks, will be held on Saturday, March 6 in Chicago. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/a-camp-with-a-plan\/\">You can get more details here<\/a>. Skepticamps are audience-participation events, where everyone can help in some way. They&#8217;re fun, so if you&#8217;re in Chicago then, give it a shot. <\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/genconskeptics.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/02\/genconlogo.jpg\" alt=\"genconlogo\" title=\"genconlogo\" width=\"610\" height=\"122\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11977\"\/><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"> <\/p>\n<p>2) GenCon is a gaming convention held in Indianapolis, and this year <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/genconskeptics.com\/\">there will be a skeptic track<\/a>. That&#8217;s from August 5-8. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to see more grassroots skeptical events getting put together. They&#8217;re great ways to meet like-minded folks, to learn new things, and to have a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SgFT4Dxbg3sR7c31OQw_9ME2moo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SgFT4Dxbg3sR7c31OQw_9ME2moo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SgFT4Dxbg3sR7c31OQw_9ME2moo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/SgFT4Dxbg3sR7c31OQw_9ME2moo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/XetgChpUwjo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/IjdePgUo9HI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two skeptical events coming up you should know about: 1) The first Skepchicamp, a skepticamp thrown by the Skepchicks, will be held on Saturday, March 6 in Chicago. You can get more details here. Skepticamps are audience-participation events, where everyone can help in some way. They&#8217;re fun, so if you&#8217;re in Chicago then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}