{"id":1563,"date":"2007-04-30T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2007-04-30T18:51:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T18:51:05","slug":"word_balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"Word Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was long overdue for a comics fix, so I paid a visit to the good folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/bestof.citypages.com\/2007\/bought-sold\/69980\/\">Big Brain<\/a> yesterday and they gladly supplied me with an oversized bag to contain the surfeit of reading material I had purchased. I&#8217;m looking forward to checking out the first few issues of the new <i>Dark Tower<\/i> and <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/i> series, as well as the <i>three<\/i> new issues of <i>Astro City<\/i> that have appeared since my last visit (Kurt Busiek is a genius and finding new material of his on the shelves is always a treat, albeit an irregular one). I thought about picking up the first volumes of <i>Fables<\/i> and <i>Runaways<\/i>, but I exercised judicious restraint and deferred those items for a future binge. <\/p>\n<p>What are my fellow geeks reading? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was long overdue for a comics fix, so I paid a visit to the good folks at Big Brain yesterday and they gladly supplied me with an oversized bag to contain the surfeit of reading material I had purchased. I&#8217;m looking forward to checking out the first few issues of the new Dark Tower <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1563' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-pd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}