{"id":79,"date":"2010-10-19T08:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T08:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2010-10-18T22:35:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T22:35:53","slug":"day-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Day of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewhiskeydregs.com\/2010\/10\/18\/zombie-con-2010-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Whiskey Dregs blogs about Zombiecon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blue skies, white swollen clouds drifted endlessly to the west and  beneath this glorious pastiche of normalcy, a horde gathered at  Kennedy\u2019s to enact a day long tribute to that great genre of horror,  which began with <em>Night of the Living Dead<\/em> way back in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Zombie films were a little different than all of the other films of  this genre. Lifeless drones ambling toward an insatiable appetite, as  infinite as death itself, have always been the a stripped down  reflection of us; ugly in our desires and empty as a hungry ghost. The  organizers cleverly utilized a political theme as you\u2019ll be able to see  in the pictures below. The occupants of the Time Warner building are  still cleaning up after we ransacked it. For one day these zombies had a  free pass to the city. The police just stood aside, unsure what to do. I  took pictures, smiling from ear to ear \u2014 the happiest among the undead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-81\" title=\"20101016-_DSC0165\" src=\"https:\/\/zombiecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101016-_DSC0165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101016-_DSC0165.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101016-_DSC0165-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-80\" title=\"20101016-_DSC0140\" src=\"https:\/\/zombiecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101016-_DSC0140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101016-_DSC0140.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101016-_DSC0140-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83\" title=\"20101016-_DSC0099\" src=\"https:\/\/zombiecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101016-_DSC0099.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101016-_DSC0099.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/20101016-_DSC0099-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewhiskeydregs.com\/2010\/10\/18\/zombie-con-2010-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\">See the post and the rest of Carlos quite inspired photo gallery here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Whiskey Dregs blogs about Zombiecon: Blue skies, white swollen clouds drifted endlessly to the west and beneath this glorious pastiche of normalcy, a horde gathered at Kennedy\u2019s to enact a day long tribute to that great genre of horror, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/?p=79\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,39],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zombiecon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}