{"id":1663,"date":"2009-09-06T19:12:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T02:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2009-09-09T10:14:02","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T17:14:02","slug":"locals-things-happening-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2009\/09\/locals-things-happening-locally\/","title":{"rendered":"Locals! Things happening locally!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October is looking to be a fine month for geeks. Let&#8217;s go to these.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonhams.com\/cgi-bin\/public.sh\/pubweb\/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&#038;screen=naturalhistorytrexsale\">Natural History Auction<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nFeaturing the Tyrannosaurus rex &#8220;Samson&#8221;<br \/>\nSaturday, October 3rd<br \/>\n<strong>Preview:<\/strong> September 18 &#8211; October 3<br \/>\nThe Venetian, Las Vegas<\/p>\n<p><em>One of the largest known Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered will be offered on Saturday, October 3rd during Bonhams &#038; Butterfields Natural History auction to be held at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The auction will contain approximately 50 lots of fossils with the centerpiece of the sale focusing on the expertly mounted female T. rex, expected to bring millions of dollars. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Preview the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonhams.com\/cgi-bin\/public.sh\/pubweb\/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&#038;screen=Catalogue&#038;iSaleNo=17517\">auction catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvccld.org\/events\/event.cfm?nID=28159&#038;nTitle=0&#038;nForm=1&#038;bLbrspn=0,1&#038;nEvnttp=0&#038;nLbr=1&#038;nAge=0&#038;nAgeFrom=0&#038;nAgeTo=11&#038;nSpec=0&#038;nDtlimt=0&#038;sStrtdat=&#038;nStoryTm=0&#038;nSeries=0&#038;sKwrd=&#038;perpage=10&#038;sOrder=StartDate,%20Location,%20evtType&#038;page=12\">An Evening with Max Brooks:Surviving the Zombie Wars<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAuthor: Max Brooks<br \/>\nFriday, October 16th, 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Clark County Library<br \/>\n1401 E. Flamingo Road<br \/>\nLas Vegas, NV 89119<\/p>\n<p><em>Max Brooks, considered by many to be one of the world&#8217;s foremost zombie preparedness experts, will take the stage at the Clark County Library to explain the keys to success against the hordes of the undead that may be stalking you right now.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October is looking to be a fine month for geeks. Let&#8217;s go to these. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Natural History Auction Featuring the Tyrannosaurus rex &#8220;Samson&#8221; Saturday, October 3rd Preview: September 18 &#8211; October 3 The Venetian, Las Vegas One of the largest known Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered will be offered on Saturday, October 3rd during Bonhams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,58,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-las-vegas","category-literature","category-nostalgia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}