{"id":1495,"date":"2015-06-04T23:30:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2015-06-04T23:33:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T23:33:57","slug":"winter-is-coming-to-austin-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2015\/06\/04\/winter-is-coming-to-austin-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin, TX: Winter Is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><div id=\"attachment_1497\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/OTHERSpicacioCROPPED.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1497\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/OTHERSpicacioCROPPED.jpg?resize=680%2C680\" alt=\"'The Others'. Detail from the limited-edition A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE print art by John Picacio. \" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/OTHERSpicacioCROPPED.jpg?w=1000 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/OTHERSpicacioCROPPED.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/OTHERSpicacioCROPPED.jpg?resize=500%2C500 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018The Others\u2019. Detail from the limited-edition A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE print art by John Picacio.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And so is Loteria! \ud83d\ude42 <em>Alright, Austin<\/em> \u2014 so I know the temps are hitting 90 degrees right now, and it definitely doesn\u2019t <em>feel<\/em> like winter. That\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n<p>So where are my Austin-area <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> fans? You out there? If you\u2019re glued to every episode\u00a0like I am, then you know that the series finale is coming soon! <strong><em>BREAKING NEWS:<\/em><\/strong> I\u2019ll be appearing in Austin the day before on Saturday, June 13th to talk about the show with fellow fans at <a href=\"http:\/\/dlair.net\/austin\/game-of-thrones-artist-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dragon\u2019s Lair (2438 W.\u00a0Anderson Lane)<\/a>, and I\u2019ll have\u00a0some of my limited-edition <em>A Song of Ice and Fire<\/em> prints at special prices for you.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, you\u2019ll have a chance to score my all-new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lone-boy.com\/wp\/product\/once-loteria-grande-card-set\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loteria Grande cards<\/a> and posters too, and some lucky Dragon\u2019s Lair customers are going to win cool prizes when we play the game of Loteria together that day! Never played Loteria? It\u2019s easy. <a href=\"http:\/\/lone-boy.com\/wp\/2015\/01\/29\/the-look-of-loteria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Mexican Bingo.<\/a> Totally fun. Totally addictive. And it\u2019s the best of times. For all who grew up playing this traditional game of chance with their family and friends (as I did), gather your homies\u00a0<em>(and any friends who love card games and tarot cards)<\/em> and come play with me at Dragon\u2019s Lair on Saturday the 13th. Let\u2019s pack the house!<\/p>\n<p>See you there from 12noon to 4pm, Austin!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DLAIRaustinPOSTER.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-large wp-image-1500 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DLAIRaustinPOSTER.jpg?resize=640%2C1024\" alt=\"DLAIRaustinPOSTER\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DLAIRaustinPOSTER.jpg?resize=640%2C1024 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DLAIRaustinPOSTER.jpg?resize=188%2C300 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DLAIRaustinPOSTER.jpg?resize=313%2C500 313w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DLAIRaustinPOSTER.jpg?w=1000 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so is Loteria! \ud83d\ude42 Alright, Austin \u2014 so I know the temps are hitting 90 degrees right now, and it definitely doesn\u2019t feel like winter. That\u2019s for sure. So where are my Austin-area Game of Thrones fans? You out there? If you\u2019re glued to every episode\u00a0like I am, then you know that the series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Winter Is Coming to Austin, TX! http:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-o7","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}},"categories":[143,116,77,59,104],"tags":[10,32,63,6],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-song-of-ice-and-fire","category-for-sale","category-loteria","category-picacio-art","category-retail","tag-a-song-of-ice-and-fire","tag-dragons-lair","tag-john-picacio","tag-loteria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/OTHERSpicacioCROPPED.jpg?fit=1000%2C1000","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-o7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}