{"id":13375,"date":"2010-04-27T19:51:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T00:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13375"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:46","slug":"giampaoli-justin-blood-orange-with-art-by-grant-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13375","title":{"rendered":"Giampaoli, Justin &#8211; Blood Orange (with art by Grant Lee)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thirteenminutes.blogspot.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/bloodorange1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bloodorange1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/bloodorange1.jpg\" alt=\"bloodorange1\" width=\"322\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blood Orange (with art by Grant Lee) <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=1&amp;product_id=413\" target=\"_blank\">Now Available<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 $.50<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always mildly demoralizing when I see a review quote on the back  of the book that&#8217;s miles more insightful than anything I&#8217;ll ever say.\u00c2\u00a0  Ryan Claytor (yes, that Ryan Claytor, the one with all the books for  sale on this site) nails this book on the back cover, and I&#8217;m going to  do the best I can to ignore that quote and press on.\u00c2\u00a0 This is,  essentially, a childhood memory.\u00c2\u00a0 There was a week when Justin (at least  I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s Justin, what with him being the writer and all) ate  nothing but oranges.\u00c2\u00a0 They had a tree in their backyard, his parents had  had a check bounce and there was no margin for error for such things.\u00c2\u00a0  This brief comic follows the progressing mortification of his parents,  even as Justin admits to it not being all that bad at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 Of  course, he was a small kid who went along with it being &#8220;just a game&#8221; to  eat oranges all week, but outside of not being able to avoid thinking  about it whenever he drinks orange juice, I think he came out OK.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s  even timely, what with the current recession and everybody cutting back  on non-essentials.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth a look, and as they sent along some extra  copies for the store just to get a little exposure, here&#8217;s hoping that  cheap price will convince some of you people to check it out.\u00c2\u00a0 $.50<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/bloodorange2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"bloodorange2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/12\/bloodorange2.jpg\" alt=\"bloodorange2\" width=\"420\" height=\"665\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Blood Orange (with art by Grant Lee) Now Available!\u00c2\u00a0 $.50 It&#8217;s always mildly demoralizing when I see a review quote on the back of the book that&#8217;s miles more insightful than anything I&#8217;ll ever say.\u00c2\u00a0 Ryan Claytor (yes, that Ryan Claytor, the one with all the books for sale on this site) nails this [&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":[1151,3680,3681],"class_list":["post-13375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-blood-orange","tag-grant-lee","tag-justin-giampaoli"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375","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=13375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13377,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375\/revisions\/13377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}