{"id":263043,"date":"2013-08-13T02:48:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T02:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/13\/hastopee-okay-before-i-fall-into-an-endless\/"},"modified":"2018-10-10T23:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T23:42:17","slug":"hastopee-okay-before-i-fall-into-an-endless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/13\/hastopee-okay-before-i-fall-into-an-endless\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-263043 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/13\/hastopee-okay-before-i-fall-into-an-endless\/attachment\/263044\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mrekmdzFBG1rjanqro1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mrekmdzFBG1rjanqro1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mrekmdzFBG1rjanqro1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/hastopee.tumblr.com\/post\/58035157081\/okay-before-i-fall-into-an-endless-sleep-which-i\" target=\"_blank\">hastopee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\" id=\"id_520871c8da77a8c65202861\">Okay, before I fall into an endless sleep, which I justly deserve, I must tell a wonderful story. My little brother, Patrick, attended his FIRST EVER COMIC BOOK CONVENTION in Chicago this past weekend. He had only one thing on his list of things to do, which he took money out of his savings account for. His item was John Barrowman\u2019s autograph and a picture. When we got to the autograph signing area, Mr. Barrowman was out at a panel but would be back in half an hour. Patrick wanted to wait in the yellow tape area so he could be close tot he front of the line when he got back. I stood with him and told him it would be a long wait, as past experience had shown me. We waited, and Patrick chatted with virtually every nice Whovian in line. He was quite popular as the cutie patootie who loved his Sonic screwdriver noises. We eventually waited about 35 mins give or take before John returned to his booth. I carefully read the price lists and noticed that \u2026there was no listing for photos with John. I asked one of the volunteers working the line and he told me that there was no photos allowed and that if Patrick wanted a photo with John he\u2019d have to go to this special event called Photo-0Op, which was an extra charge I can\u2019t remember how much right now but it was out of our price range after the autograph. Patrick was nervouse as all get out when we finally got to the front and chose the photo we wanted signed by John. I introduced Patrick to him and Patrick said, I\u2019m the 4th Doctor! (He was wearing the scarf and hat) John was very nice to Patrick though he was suddenly unable to talk to \u201cCaptain Jack\u201d. I asked him, as he was signing the photo; \u201cI\u2019m sorry to bother you, but we\u2019re only here for today and we can\u2019t make the photo-op because he\u2019s out of money, would it be possible to take a quick picture of him with you here?\u201d John Barrowman looked at Patrick and smiled; \u201cSure, real quick.\u201d Then something extra crazy happened on top of this nice gesture. He grabbed my hand and slipped me back the money we\u2019d paid for the autograph ($35-$40 Can\u2019t remember because TIRED) I was stunned. I didn\u2019t know what to say. He then slipped out form behind the booth and said nicely to everyone in line \u201cTHE ONLY EXCEPTION!\u201d And pointed to Patrick, who was freaking out a little. He asked a guy to hold our bags to make sure it was a nice picture and I captured this wonderful moment. He then whispered to Patrick \u201cGo get yourself something nice.\u201d He smiled and patted him on the shoulder as we thanked him and hurried away from the line. JOHN BARROWMAN IS A SAINT AND I LOVE HIM FOR MAKING THIS THE BEST CONVENTION EVER FOR MY LITTLE BROTHER!!!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hastopee: Okay, before I fall into an endless sleep, which I justly deserve, I must tell a wonderful story. My little brother, Patrick, attended his FIRST EVER COMIC BOOK CONVENTION in Chicago this past weekend. He had only one thing on his list of things to do, which he took money out of his savings &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/08\/13\/hastopee-okay-before-i-fall-into-an-endless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[74,552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263045,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263043\/revisions\/263045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}