{"id":4159,"date":"2010-05-02T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=4159"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:35","slug":"williams-j-brendan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=4159","title":{"rendered":"Williams, J. Brendan &#8211; What I Did On My 2008 Summer Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendowski.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whatidid1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4160\" title=\"whatidid1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whatidid1.jpg\" alt=\"whatidid1\" width=\"307\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whatidid1.jpg 307w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whatidid1-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What I Did On My 2008 Summer Vacation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are times when a title is all you need to sum up a book, and this is one of those times.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a listing of what J. did from July 3rd to August 7th, all told with one giant panel per day.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s one solid black page above one descriptive page, all the way through, with pithy little observances that often leave you more than a little confused (as they&#8217;re mostly without any kind of context).\u00c2\u00a0 Oddly, this was a welcome break from the usual diary strips that nail everything down in exact detail.\u00c2\u00a0 What does he mean, &#8220;I was caught between scylla &amp; charybdis&#8221;? The picture doesn&#8217;t help (unless they&#8217;re two people), but that was early on in the book and it sucked me right in.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s not all interesting, or even close to it, as 4 pages of strips about his move was a bit much.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, not a bad entry into diary strips overall.\u00c2\u00a0 Just on the off-chance that J. does requests, how about something a little meatier next time?\u00c2\u00a0 $2<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whatidid2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4161\" title=\"whatidid2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whatidid2.jpg\" alt=\"whatidid2\" width=\"404\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whatidid2.jpg 404w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whatidid2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whatidid2-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website What I Did On My 2008 Summer Vacation There are times when a title is all you need to sum up a book, and this is one of those times.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a listing of what J. did from July 3rd to August 7th, all told with one giant panel per day.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s one [&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":[3997,2377],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-j-brendan-williams","tag-what-i-did-on-my-2008-summer-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","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=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16454,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions\/16454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}