{"id":1867,"date":"2008-08-11T11:42:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T15:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/08\/11\/comics-embrace-the-awful\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:23:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:23:26","slug":"comics-embrace-the-awful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Comics: Embrace The Awful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>We are the only industry that so loves its Colonel Parkers and so distrusts its Elvis Presleys. That managers and makers have spent equal time this summer preening in the spotlight of appreciation brought by a world starved for idiosyncratic creation shows just how damaged we&#8217;ve become.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; Tom Spurgeon, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/i_beg_you_to_be_a_little_more_observant\/\" target=\"_blank\">ComicsReporter.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom offers a lovely <em>riposte<\/em> to reaction to current events, but not only current events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are the only industry that so loves its Colonel Parkers and so distrusts its Elvis Presleys. That managers and makers have spent equal time this summer preening in the spotlight of appreciation brought by a world starved for idiosyncratic creation shows just how damaged we&#8217;ve become.&#8221; &#8211; Tom Spurgeon, ComicsReporter.com Tom offers a lovely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comics: Embrace The Awful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2116,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}