{"id":13679,"date":"2010-04-28T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13679"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:33","slug":"lanier-chris-combustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13679","title":{"rendered":"Lanier, Chris &#8211; Combustion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrislanier.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/combustion1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"352\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1560973145\/xeroxarmy-20\">Combustion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wordless stories are a tricky business. If they aren&#8217;t done right,  and this happens more than I&#8217;d like to admit, they&#8217;re a complete waste  of time. Granted, it&#8217;s usually only a few minutes of time, but it stinks  when that&#8217;s the best thing that you can say about a book. There are  times, however. when it&#8217;s done to perfection, and you have to stop and  wonder why people use words at all. Chris Lanier&#8217;s book falls into the  latter category. This is a story about a soldier who sees too much and  his reactions to the horrors of war. Incredibly moving and quick, this  is something that everybody who has a political and social conscience  should own. I&#8217;ve rarely seen eyes that haunted anywhere. The art is dark  and dirty, but in a way that perfectly suits the story. Hey, Peter  Kuper likes it too, as evidenced by the back of the book, so how can you  go wrong?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/combustion2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"686\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Combustion Wordless stories are a tricky business. If they aren&#8217;t done right, and this happens more than I&#8217;d like to admit, they&#8217;re a complete waste of time. Granted, it&#8217;s usually only a few minutes of time, but it stinks when that&#8217;s the best thing that you can say about a book. There are times, [&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":[3771,1506],"class_list":["post-13679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-chris-lanier","tag-combustion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679","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=13679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13682,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions\/13682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}