{"id":10968,"date":"2010-04-24T17:06:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T22:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10968"},"modified":"2010-04-02T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:39:01","slug":"meuse-adam-social-insect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=10968","title":{"rendered":"Meuse, Adam &#8211; Social Insect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adammeuse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/socialinsect1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"socialinsect1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/socialinsect1.jpg\" alt=\"socialinsect1\" width=\"318\" height=\"477\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Insect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this website serves as the corniest wish factory possible.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish that I could see more from Adam than some (admittedly hilarious) single panels of sad animals and presto, anther book comes in the mail.\u00c2\u00a0 I would also like to formally wish for a few million dollars so I can retire and spend the rest of my life hunting obscure mini comics around the globe.\u00c2\u00a0 Ahem, just testing.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a collection of mostly introspective and occasionally conceptual pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 There are simple statements of fact (like the panel with a rhino, elephant and hippo called simply &#8220;The Gray Team&#8221;), philosophical puns, a list of the important things that happen in darkness, a series of cars who spout platitudes, the difference between soggy and crispy worms, and what separates us.\u00c2\u00a0 The only big story of the book deals with an adorably cuddly bear whose eyes have become gigantic.\u00c2\u00a0 His perspective is skewed, as he&#8217;s both able to see nothing and everything in the same plane.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting books though, all sorts of thought-provoking stuff in here with a wide variety of pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 Worth checking out, although if your thing is sad animals specifically I suggest you get both minis on this page.\u00c2\u00a0 No price, so let&#8217;s call it $3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/socialinsect2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"socialinsect2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/socialinsect2.jpg\" alt=\"socialinsect2\" width=\"427\" height=\"609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Social Insect Sometimes this website serves as the corniest wish factory possible.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish that I could see more from Adam than some (admittedly hilarious) single panels of sad animals and presto, anther book comes in the mail.\u00c2\u00a0 I would also like to formally wish for a few million dollars so I can retire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3110,1669],"class_list":["post-10968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-adam-meuse","tag-social-insect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10970,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10968\/revisions\/10970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}