{"id":13165,"date":"2010-04-27T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13165"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:55","slug":"costello-sam-tent-city-tales-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13165","title":{"rendered":"Costello, Sam &#8211; Tent City Tales #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tentcitycomics.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/tentcitytales1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"596\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tent City Tales #1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><tt>I love it when I get comics in the mail and have no idea what to  expect. When I saw the cover I thought maybe it was a mystery or an  adventure type thing (it was probably the gun), but what I got was a  quiet, thoughtful couple of stories of people just trying to get by. The  first one is about a man (homeless?) who gambles the last of his money  away and wanders around the town. Sounds dull, I know, but I have a  fascination for the quiet moments what most people either gloss over of  ignore completely. Something about focusing on him jiggling the handle  and trying to get a magazine for free that resonates for me. The second  one was about a couple and them trying to make a living while the man  won't allow his wife to work. That's where the gun comes into play, but  I'm not going to tell you where. Another quiet story. The writing is  solid if somewhat basic (it's not like the stories were overly  complicated so that's not a knock on the guy) and the art was perfectly  suited to stories. Eyes can tell a whole lot about what's going on and  Shawn seems to understand that. Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tentcitycomics.com\/\">website<\/a> and look around,  this one is $2. <\/tt><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/tentcitytales2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"594\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Tent City Tales #1 I love it when I get comics in the mail and have no idea what to expect. When I saw the cover I thought maybe it was a mystery or an adventure type thing (it was probably the gun), but what I got was a quiet, thoughtful couple of stories [&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":[3607,904],"class_list":["post-13165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-sam-costello","tag-tent-city-tales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165","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=13165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13168,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13165\/revisions\/13168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}