{"id":18777,"date":"2011-11-28T16:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T22:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18777"},"modified":"2011-11-28T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T22:45:20","slug":"hendricks-robert-stranger-two-stranger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=18777","title":{"rendered":"Hendricks, Robert &#8211; Stranger Two Stranger #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangertwostranger.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18778\" title=\"stranger21\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger21-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger21-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger21-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger21.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stranger Two Stranger #2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so happy that Robert decided to keep going with this. Sure, it&#8217;s a simple concept: illustrating the best\/oddest Craigslist personal ads, which he started doing after being inspired by the &#8220;I Saw You&#8230;&#8221; anthology edited by Julia Wertz (which I&#8217;ve been meaning to review for ages now). Still, the guy has the judgement needed to pick out some of the best ads, which goes a long way in a book like this. Ads that he adapted include the one I sampled below (and it&#8217;s always a bit dicey to start the book with the best ad, as that gives you a lot to live up to in later pages), a tube of scabies medicine left over after a hookup (and the desire to see the person again anyway), a regretful ad about a guy who died before the poster got to say good-bye, trying to get in contact with the guy with the webbed feet from the gym shower, a helpful letter to the ladies about the power of their boobs, missed connections from being a faithful husband, a tiny bearded man, a lady in a freezer, and a flasher showing up at the wrong house. There are also a couple poems, one a little heartbreaking and one a bit of a mess. His illustrations really bring out the emotions of these ads, and three cheers to the man for keeping this up. $2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18779\" title=\"stranger22\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger22-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger22-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger22-744x1024.jpg 744w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stranger22.jpg 1108w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Stranger Two Stranger #2 I&#8217;m so happy that Robert decided to keep going with this. Sure, it&#8217;s a simple concept: illustrating the best\/oddest Craigslist personal ads, which he started doing after being inspired by the &#8220;I Saw You&#8230;&#8221; anthology edited by Julia Wertz (which I&#8217;ve been meaning to review for ages now). Still, the [&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":[4691,4570],"class_list":["post-18777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-robert-hendricks","tag-stranger-two-stranger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777","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=18777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18780,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18777\/revisions\/18780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}