{"id":6102,"date":"2003-05-29T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-29T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/05\/29\/cosplay-comes-to-wizard-world-chicago\/"},"modified":"2003-05-29T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-29T14:27:00","slug":"cosplay-comes-to-wizard-world-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/cosplay-comes-to-wizard-world-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosplay Comes to Wizard World Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In the years that Wizard Entertainment, the people behind Anime Insider and Wizard: The Comics Magazine, has run Wizard World Chicago (the second largest genre entertainment convention in the country with 42,000 attendees), we&#8217;ve wanted to hold a masquerade contest, and with our 2003 show it&#8217;s finally going to happen!<\/p>\n<p>Wizard World Chicago 2003, held from August 8 to 10 at the Donald E. Stevens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, will be awarding prizes including rare DVDs, video games, T-shirts and more in a number of categories in our first ever cosplay contest held during the evening of Saturday, August 9th!<\/p>\n<p>Winners and entrants will have their photos run in the next issue of Anime Insider, and on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anime-insider.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">anime-insider.com website<\/a>! Of course, if you bring &#8220;Chair&#8221; chants, we may have to kill you.<\/p>\n<p>Contest rules and information will be available by Monday June 9th on the Wizard World Chicago page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizarduniverse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.wizarduniverse.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the years that Wizard Entertainment, the people behind Anime Insider and Wizard: The Comics Magazine, has run Wizard World Chicago (the second largest genre entertainment convention in the country with 42,000 attendees), we&#8217;ve wanted to hold a masquerade contest, and with our 2003 show it&#8217;s finally going to happen! Wizard World Chicago 2003, held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}