{"id":4802,"date":"2007-03-08T01:57:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T07:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2009-09-25T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T17:18:52","slug":"steve-rogerscaptain-america-1941-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/steve-rogerscaptain-america-1941-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Rogers\/Captain America 1941 &#8211; 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. He&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_America\" class=\"external external_icon\">fictional character<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No. I&#8217;m not crying over it. But I will muse over it, after I&#8217;ve had a few hours of shut eye.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"captain america small.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/captain%20america%20small.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"400\" align=\"right\"\/>Captain America is dead. The Marvel Entertainment superhero, created in 1941 as a patriotic adversary for the Nazis, is killed off in Captain America #25, which hits the stands today.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>His death is sure to ignite controversy in the comic book world &#8211; still reeling from Superman&#8217;s death in 1993 and resurrection the following year &#8211; and even political pundits, who may see Captain America&#8217;s demise as an allegory for the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/story\/503132p-424376c.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a hell of a time for him to go. We really need him now,&#8221; said co-creator Joe Simon, 93, after being informed of his brainchild&#8217;s death.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simon and artist Jack Kirby came up with the character in 1941 as an adversary for Adolf Hitler, who was more evil than any villain the pair could dream up. Since then, the patriotic hero has appeared in an estimated 210 million copies sold in 75 countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/story\/503132p-424376c.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">new york daily news<\/a> and star spangled dunc!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. He&#8217;s a fictional character. No. I&#8217;m not crying over it. But I will muse over it, after I&#8217;ve had a few hours of shut eye. Captain America is dead. The Marvel Entertainment superhero, created in 1941 as a patriotic adversary for the Nazis, is killed off in Captain America #25, which hits the stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1457],"class_list":["post-4802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-who-died","tag-jack-kirby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}