{"id":14880,"date":"2010-04-21T13:26:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14880"},"modified":"2010-06-21T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:27:11","slug":"white-ben-snakepit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=14880","title":{"rendered":"White, Ben &#8211; Snakepit #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bensnakepit\" target=\"_blank\">Ben&#8217;s  Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/snakepit21.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snake Pit #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This seems at first glance like a really dumb comic. It&#8217;s a daily  diary in the form of a three panel comic, the problem being that every  day seems pretty much the same. Ben goes to a party, he smokes pot, he  gets drunk (or gives up alcohol for a little while), his band plays, he  goes to work, he watches a movie, and he hangs out with a pretty girl.  That&#8217;s pretty much every day, and I was almost ready to give up after  the first few pages. But then it started getting through to me, or  perhaps the sameness of it all hypnotized me, and I started to really  like it. After all, how exciting is the average day for anybody? His  honesty in telling the story of his daily &#8220;adventures&#8221; is what makes  this book so compelling. It&#8217;s mundane, sure, but it gets harder and  harder to put down as you go. Go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngamericancomics.com\/\">website<\/a> that  publishes his comic, he&#8217;s not the only artist there, look around and see  what you like&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/snakepit22.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"763\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben&#8217;s Facebook page Snake Pit #2 This seems at first glance like a really dumb comic. It&#8217;s a daily diary in the form of a three panel comic, the problem being that every day seems pretty much the same. Ben goes to a party, he smokes pot, he gets drunk (or gives up alcohol for [&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":[3439,4188],"class_list":["post-14880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ben-white","tag-snakepit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880","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=14880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14881,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14880\/revisions\/14881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}