{"id":1547,"date":"2007-06-15T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T10:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-15-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T05:02:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T10:02:12","slug":"unrequired-reading-june-15-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-15-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: June 15, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odds and ends, dear readers!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nEd Koch is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcentral.jpost.com\/index.php?cat_id=7&amp;blog_id=60&amp;blog_post_id=1196\" target=\"_blank\">pissed at the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Foreign money&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2167392\" target=\"_blank\">gotta go <em>some<\/em>where<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/12\/business\/12turbulence.html\" target=\"_blank\">Turbulence<\/a> blows.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>The Sopranos<\/em> as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9304030\" target=\"_blank\">reflection of U.S. foreign policy<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Well, <em>my<\/em> slideshow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2167961\" target=\"_blank\">happens to be a doctor<\/a>. . .<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>And, for the big laff-laff: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingawful.com\/d\/photoshop-phriday\/classic-comics-iii.php\" target=\"_blank\">Reimagining pulp comic-book covers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odds and ends, dear readers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,26,17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-politics-explicit","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-oX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1086,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/sunday-laff-laff","url_meta":{"origin":1547,"position":0},"title":"Sunday laff-laff","author":"Gil","date":"August 20, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Everybody lives in a coccoon. 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Plumb the depths of the Unrequired Reading archives . . . if you dare!)","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Comic books &amp; strips&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Comic books &amp; strips","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/comics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10449,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/comic-con-2017-pre-game","url_meta":{"origin":1547,"position":5},"title":"Comic-Con 2017 pre-game","author":"Gil","date":"July 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I won't be at the big Comic-Con International in San Diego this weekend, but if you're going, here's a list of podcasts I've done with some of this year's guests & attendees: Maria Alexander\u00a0\u2022\u00a0mp3 Derf Backderf\u00a0\u2022\u00a0mp3 Joyce Farmer\u00a0\u2022\u00a0mp3 Mary Fleener \u2022 mp3 Jeff Gomez\u00a0\u2022\u00a0mp3 Karen Green\u00a0\u2022\u00a0mp3 Peter Kuper\u00a0\u2022\u00a0mp3 Mimi Pond\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Classic Comics Criticism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Classic Comics Criticism","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature\/classic-comics-criticism"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/cci_teaser_logo_2_52.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}