{"id":370,"date":"2025-01-13T15:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/?p=370"},"modified":"2025-01-13T15:40:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T15:40:02","slug":"pokemania-events-comes-to-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2025\/01\/13\/pokemania-events-comes-to-canterbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mania Events comes to Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 12 January we welcomed Pok\u00e9mania Events to the University of Kent for their first Pok\u00e9mania event in Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon enthusiasts entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/conferences-and-events\/venues\/kent-sport-centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kent Sports Centre<\/a> and got to experience all things Pok\u00e9mon. From being able to buy vintage, graded and new trading cards to taking part in the Pok\u00e9mon Go tournament. Guests also enjoyed chatting to other collectors and trading cards in the trading zone.<\/p>\n<p>The main hall was filled with trade stalls selling Pok\u00e9mon cards, plushies and themed goodies throughout the day. Visitors even had the opportunity to meet some of their favourite Pok\u00e9mon characters and have their photo taken with a Pikachu themed car parked outside the Sports Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mania Events brings together Pok\u00e9mon enthusiasts and collectors from around the UK with their national events. Head to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemania.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> and look for an event coming near you soon!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-387 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/files\/2025\/01\/Pokemania-Event-photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-383\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/files\/2025\/01\/Pokemania-Event-photo-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-385\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/files\/2025\/01\/Pokemania-Event-photo-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday 12 January we welcomed Pok\u00e9mania Events to the University of Kent for their first Pok\u00e9mania event in Canterbury. Pok\u00e9mon enthusiasts entered the Kent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/2025\/01\/13\/pokemania-events-comes-to-canterbury\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82915,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[291428,180048,112,291708,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/conferencesandevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}