{"id":875,"date":"2012-09-17T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artedetimo.com\/?p=875"},"modified":"2012-09-17T17:41:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T01:41:54","slug":"comic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Comic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<br \/>\nAt one point in my life I wanted to be a comic book artist. I know I used to draw a lot, but I&#8217;ve never really bothered keep track of what I drew or when. Now that I see this old sketch book my mom found, I remember drawing all this, and all the hopes and dreams I had when I was making them. I&#8217;m not exactly sure when I did these, but based on the last two, they were done in the years leading up to high school. <\/p>\n<p>I sense a strange mix of geekiness, artistry, angst and anger in all this. I am sure my early self, the one that drew all these, would have be mortified to see my current self sticking them up on the web like this. I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not that kid anymore, and can look back on these drawings without the embarrassment I had in my youth. Talk about a Napoleon Dynamite, &#8220;Lyger&#8221; moment here.<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing what some old drawings can stir up in ye ole&#8217; noggin. There is so much buried down in my psyche that I don&#8217;t often access, yet is still present and influential in my personality. \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one point in my life I wanted to be a comic book artist. I know I used to draw a lot, but I&#8217;ve never really bothered keep track of what I drew or when. Now that I see this old sketch book my mom found, I remember drawing all this, and all the hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-when-i-want-to-share-something-i-am-making-or-creating","category-economics-politics-sociology-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artedetimo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}