{"id":12896,"date":"2010-04-27T13:03:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T18:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12896"},"modified":"2010-04-22T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T18:03:42","slug":"augenbraun-leslie-the-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=12896","title":{"rendered":"Augenbraun, Leslie &#8211; The Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mailto:leslie@fwdbooks.com\">E-mail<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/balloon1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Balloon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to make a story both heartbreaking and adorable in the span of 7 pages of story, but Leslie pulls it off. This is the story of a little boy who releases a balloon into the sky on his ninth birthday with a note attached, asking whoever gets it to write him back. If I explain any more than that I&#8217;ll ruin the whole story, but she puts everything together really well. The art is a bit raw in places, but I have to give her credit for trying all sorts of images and poses. Oh, and $3 is way too much for something this tiny, but it does come in a handy little envelope, so&#8230; nope, it&#8217;s still too much. Still, a pretty good comic and worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/balloon2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"bottom\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mail The Balloon It&#8217;s hard to make a story both heartbreaking and adorable in the span of 7 pages of story, but Leslie pulls it off. This is the story of a little boy who releases a balloon into the sky on his ninth birthday with a note attached, asking whoever gets it to write [&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":[3505,554],"class_list":["post-12896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-leslie-augenbraun","tag-the-balloon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12896","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=12896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12899,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12896\/revisions\/12899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}