{"id":283,"date":"2003-11-16T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2003-11-16T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=283"},"modified":"2003-11-16T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2003-11-16T17:13:10","slug":"i_told_you_it_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"I Told You It Was Literature!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back when I was a kid, I was in and out of the hospital quite a bit, usually for pneumonia. And it was during those stays that I discovered comics. They were a good distraction from the constant noise, commotion, and discomfort that usually accompanied those visits. But after a couple years, I quit reading them because I felt compelled to read more “mature” material. A few years ago, my interest in comics was rekindled when I shared an office with a fellow law clerk who was an avid comics reader. Now I have a modest collection and I proudly stand before the world as an unabashed comics fan. but I still get the occasional “what the hell are you reading?” from friends and family who still cling to the misconception that comics are a juvenile medium. They should all read this article in the Telegraph<\/a>, which does a nice job of summarizing some of the books and writers that represent some of the more sophisticated fare the genre has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back when I was a kid, I was in and out of the hospital quite a bit, usually for pneumonia. And it was during those stays that I discovered comics. They were a good distraction from the constant noise, commotion, and discomfort that usually accompanied those visits. But after a couple years, I quit reading […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-283","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-4z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}