{"id":12456,"date":"2010-04-27T05:54:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12456"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:50:43","slug":"vonduskra-greg-tread-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12456","title":{"rendered":"Vonduskra, Greg &#8211; Tread #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregvondruska.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/tread61.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"436\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tread #6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greg goes back to a bunch of short stories in this one instead of one longer one, proving to me once again that he&#8217;s getting to the level of doing everything right. The story of his travels was great, partially because it was one long, coherent story, but I think he has the timing down of the short stories pretty much nailed. Don&#8217;t make me choose which one I like better! The main story is about a snake charmer. Written by Robert Young (and shame on you if you don&#8217;t know who he is, as he&#8217;s putting out the only real competition to The Comic&#8217;s Journal), it&#8217;s also the basis for the lovely wraparound cover. It&#8217;s a grim and dreary tale, but also fascinating, so don&#8217;t be sad. Next is a quiet, poignant story about the culture of fear that&#8217;s been so prevalent since 9\/11, as he describes all the little things about an airport. The last one is a wandering story about a cockroach and a woman. Still interesting, it kind of meanders a bit. All in all, it&#8217;s another solid book, and I don&#8217;t see that changing as long as Greg keeps trying new things. Check it out, and read his older stuff too if you haven&#8217;t already&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/tread62.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"614\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Tread #6 Greg goes back to a bunch of short stories in this one instead of one longer one, proving to me once again that he&#8217;s getting to the level of doing everything right. The story of his travels was great, partially because it was one long, coherent story, but I think he has [&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":[3430,2335],"class_list":["post-12456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-greg-vonduskra","tag-tread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456","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=12456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12464,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12456\/revisions\/12464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}