{"id":8424,"date":"2010-04-22T14:27:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T19:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8424"},"modified":"2010-03-24T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T20:08:31","slug":"blair-josh-editor-candy-or-medicine-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8424","title":{"rendered":"Blair, Josh (editor) &#8211; Candy or Medicine #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candyormedicine.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/candy51.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candy or Medicine #5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>#5?\u00c2\u00a0 Hasn&#8217;t Josh heard of the law requiring me to monitor the  progress of all mini comics, great and small, and ramble about them on  this website?\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, it is possible that that law exists only in my  brain.\u00c2\u00a0 Regardless, this is another solid issue, and I think Josh has  the cadence of an excellent anthology comic just about down.\u00c2\u00a0 Cayetano  Valenzuela has an adorable piece about his daughter, Shannon Smith  confesses to killing rock and roll, Maggie Morrill gets the sampled  piece so I don&#8217;t have to explain it, Ed Moorman has an adapted  Craigslist &#8220;Missed connection&#8221; (and I&#8217;ll have to take his word for it  that such a thing exists), Rob Moses has a silent piece about a spider  luring people into its web using candy canes (that I&#8217;m probably  misinterpreting horribly), Sarah Orchard retells an awkwardly honest  conversation, Andrew Goldfarb lets us see a few more of the thousand  sorrows that are still to come, Daniel Olson has a ten minute comic  about the heartbreak of balloons (and it looks like he was serious about  that ten minute thing) and Steve Rack has a maze on the back cover for  the kids.\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously, a buck for a range of talent like this is all you  can ask for out of an anthology.\u00c2\u00a0 Contact info is above, I&#8217;d be willing  to bet that Josh is still looking for contributors, especially as he  seems to be sticking to a schedule here and it must be tough to get a  dozen or so people to get their stuff in on time for each issue&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/candy52.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Candy or Medicine #5 #5?\u00c2\u00a0 Hasn&#8217;t Josh heard of the law requiring me to monitor the progress of all mini comics, great and small, and ramble about them on this website?\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, it is possible that that law exists only in my brain.\u00c2\u00a0 Regardless, this is another solid issue, and I think Josh [&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":[672,2533],"class_list":["post-8424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-candy-or-medicine","tag-josh-blair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424","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=8424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8428,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8424\/revisions\/8428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}