{"id":4708,"date":"2014-08-24T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=4708"},"modified":"2014-08-24T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T15:54:34","slug":"contv-boston-international-cosplay-day-2014-shocking-polka-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=4708","title":{"rendered":"[ConTV] Boston International Cosplay Day 2014: Shocking Polka Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hF26D9VUSmI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Event: <\/strong>International Cosplay Day 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: Boston, MA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Notes<\/strong>: Title is a play on words -&#8220;Shocking Party&#8221; and &#8220;Polka Party.&#8221; I was cosplaying as Yuuki Anju from Love Live in her &#8220;Shocking Party&#8221; variation. I was in a Weird Al mood for most of summer, so I thought about using a Weird Al song that wasn&#8217;t so obvious. &#8220;White and Nerdy&#8221; was suggested to me plenty of times, but it seemed too basic. I always liked the polka medleys. I was originally going to showcase a fandom for each section, but that was pretty hard to do. Notice that all the mahou shoujo stuff was infused with Spice Girls&#8217; &#8220;Wannabe.&#8221; When it got to &#8220;Intergalatic,&#8221; it made me sad of how space fandoms aren&#8217;t quite as common in the younger generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event: International Cosplay Day 2014 Location: Boston, MA Editor&#8217;s Notes: Title is a play on words -&#8220;Shocking Party&#8221; and &#8220;Polka Party.&#8221; I was cosplaying as Yuuki Anju from Love Live in her &#8220;Shocking Party&#8221; variation. I was in a Weird&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=4708\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4708\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}