{"id":743,"date":"2010-05-02T17:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T22:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:44:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:44:34","slug":"yakin-erez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Yakin, Erez &#8211; The Silent City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erezyakin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/silentcity1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0878163859\/xeroxarmy-20\">The Silent City<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just the current state of the world (it&#8217;s 4\/2\/03 and we&#8217;re in the middle of a messy and indefensible war, possibly the start of something much worse), but images of a brutally oppressive government that keeps that working folks down isn&#8217;t that novel to me any more. We see stories every day about how this government or that one is keeping people from being free, and&#8230; I&#8217;m on a soapbox now, aren&#8217;t I? Sorry. The comic is about innocent children being hurt with no consequences and the working class being brutally oppressed. Striking images all over the place of a bleak, barren world. A wordless comic, I can&#8217;t imagine that any words would be needed to convey this message any more effectively. It&#8217;s a good comic, it&#8217;s just depressing to think that the message in here has been ignored so many times, and here we are&#8230; Check it out, it&#8217;s a quick read but it&#8217;s worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/silentcity2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website The Silent City Maybe it&#8217;s just the current state of the world (it&#8217;s 4\/2\/03 and we&#8217;re in the middle of a messy and indefensible war, possibly the start of something much worse), but images of a brutally oppressive government that keeps that working folks down isn&#8217;t that novel to me any more. We see [&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":[4002,2403],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-erez-yakin","tag-the-silent-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}