{"id":6083,"date":"2020-02-04T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=6083"},"modified":"2020-02-04T18:48:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:48:02","slug":"crossingscon-2021-weve-got-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2020\/02\/04\/crossingscon-2021-weve-got-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"CrossingsCon 2021: We&#8217;ve got dates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of you will know that 2019 was kind of a busy year for me. Unquestionably one of the most fun things to happen during the year was CrossingsCon, the Young Wizards and adjacent-media convention in Canada &#8212; specifically, in Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec. 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