{"id":5696,"date":"2008-10-01T19:05:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T01:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5696"},"modified":"2008-10-01T19:26:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T01:26:02","slug":"comics-there-are-days-you-baffle-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/comics-there-are-days-you-baffle-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Comics, There are Days You Baffle Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago this article appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsarama.com\/2008\/09\/24\/sorry-you-lost-here-have-a-comic-book\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Newsarama<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/hillarybiocomic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/hillarybiocomic.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hillarybiocomic\" width=\"150\" height=\"232\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5698\" \/><\/a>If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Bluewater Productions, you \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[break] new ground\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with a comic-book biography of a former presidential hopeful \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153John McCain and Barack Obama have all of the spotlight,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Publisher Darren G. Davis says in the press release. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our goal is to show the historical impact that maybe underrated from by those who are too facetted on the candidates to fully understand the historical impact of being a few votes show [sic] for the 1st female president. Many people are daunted by the endless stream of articles on the candidates. A visual medium provides perspective that is not only accessible but more relatable to the average person without loosing [sic] any of the information involved.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Said article was <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsarama.com\/2008\/09\/24\/sorry-you-lost-here-have-a-comic-book\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">promptly updated<\/a> with covers from IDW&#8217;s <em>Presidential Material<\/em> books.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/obamamccaincomics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/obamamccaincomics.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"obamamccaincomics\" width=\"338\" height=\"252\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5699\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Talk about your &#8220;separated at birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it did take me several weeks to process what was going on here. You have a problem with that?<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsarama.com\/2008\/09\/24\/sorry-you-lost-here-have-a-comic-book\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">newsarama<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago this article appeared on Newsarama: If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Bluewater Productions, you \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[break] new ground\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with a comic-book biography of a former presidential hopeful \u00e2\u20ac\u201d one Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153John McCain and Barack Obama have all of the spotlight,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Publisher Darren G. Davis says in the press release. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our goal is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,14],"tags":[549,547,551,550,187,482,150,33,548],"class_list":["post-5696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-usa","tag-female-force","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-huh","tag-i-see-what-you-did-there","tag-if-you-say-so","tag-mccain","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-presidential-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696","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=5696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}