{"id":6023,"date":"2011-06-29T07:01:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=6023"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:19:47","slug":"wasteland-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=6023","title":{"rendered":"Wasteland Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wastelandweekend-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Wasteland Weekend\" title=\"Wasteland Weekend\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I find it weirdly hilarious that not only do <i>Mad Max<\/i> reenactors exist, there are enough of them to support a three-day &#8220;post apocalypse&#8221; festival every year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wastelandweekend.com\/\">Wasteland Weekend<\/a> is an adults-only campout in the California desert, with Industrial DJs, post-apocalyptic vehicles, staged combats, and a vendor area called &#8220;Bartertown.&#8221;  The event aims to create &#8220;a 360\u00b0 post-apocalyptic environment,&#8221; so costumes are required and themed vehicles and campsites are strongly encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>Their site proclaims, &#8220;Live for three days in a world pulled straight out of the Mad Max movies, beyond the grip of so-called civilization,&#8221; which I honestly have to say is not quite as tempting a proposition as the organizers seem to think it is.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event is September 23-25, so there&#8217;s plenty of time to dig up some spikes and cultivate your mohawk.<\/p>\n<p><small>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/\">The Art of Darkness<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it weirdly hilarious that not only do Mad Max reenactors exist, there are enough of them to support a three-day &#8220;post apocalypse&#8221; festival every year. Wasteland Weekend is an adults-only campout in the California desert, with Industrial DJs, post-apocalyptic vehicles, staged combats, and a vendor area called &#8220;Bartertown.&#8221; The event aims to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6029,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6023\/revisions\/6029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}