{"id":22400,"date":"2013-10-08T15:25:08","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=22400"},"modified":"2013-10-08T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:25:08","slug":"papke-maryanne-rose-politics-of-a-twig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=22400","title":{"rendered":"Papke, Maryanne Rose &#8211; Politics of a Twig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverkraken.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22401\" alt=\"politicsofatwig1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig1-198x300.jpg\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig1-165x250.jpg 165w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig1-115x175.jpg 115w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig1-25x38.jpg 25w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig1-142x215.jpg 142w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig1.jpg 586w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Politics of a Twig<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No insects were harmed in the course of this comic. Are there insect rights groups? It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me, but if there are, even they won&#8217;t be offended by this story. This one starts off with a bug trying to kick some leaves off of his branch by using his super powers. How does this bug have super powers? They were given to him by a preying mantis, as bugs taste better when they&#8217;re drunk with power. Other bugs stop by to attempt to reason with the bug that&#8217;s mad with power, interesting conversations are had by all, then this tiny comic ends. Maybe my saying that no insects were harmed is a bit of a spoiler. Well, harm is certainly implied, so you have that to look forward to. It&#8217;s a funny little story, and it makes me wonder why there aren&#8217;t more stories about insects out there, as most of them have to be easier to draw than humans. That comment right there probably explains why I write about comics instead of making them. Anyway, this is tiny, so I&#8217;m guessing a buck or two will get you a copy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22402\" alt=\"politicsofatwig2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig2-186x300.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig2-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig2-155x250.jpg 155w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig2-108x175.jpg 108w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig2-23x38.jpg 23w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig2-133x215.jpg 133w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/politicsofatwig2.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Politics of a Twig No insects were harmed in the course of this comic. Are there insect rights groups? It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me, but if there are, even they won&#8217;t be offended by this story. This one starts off with a bug trying to kick some leaves off of his branch by using his [&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":[5095,5249],"class_list":["post-22400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-maryanne-rose-papke","tag-politics-of-a-twig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400","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=22400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22403,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400\/revisions\/22403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}