{"id":626755,"date":"2026-04-25T01:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626755\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T01:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T01:36:11","slug":"calgary-expo-kicks-off-with-party-of-wonders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/626755\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Expo kicks off with &#8216;Party of Wonders&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Calgary Expo is an annual celebration of comics, sci-fi, horror, anime and gaming, that normally kicks off with the &#8216;Parade of Wonders,&#8217; a parade of celebrities, fans and cosplay characters through downtown Calgary. But a nasty windstorm forced organizers to host an indoor &#8216;Party of Wonders&#8217; instead. Global Calgary photographer Loren Andreae was there to catch some of the highlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Calgary Expo is an annual celebration of comics, sci-fi, horror, anime and gaming, that normally kicks off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,233113,48,234921,213416,234920],"class_list":["post-626755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-expo","tag-canada","tag-cosplay-characters","tag-downtown-calgary","tag-global-calgary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}