{"id":8650,"date":"2010-04-22T19:06:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T00:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8650"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T18:09:04","slug":"carroll-michael-x-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8650","title":{"rendered":"Carroll, Michael &#8211; X-Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gufpaht.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/xmass1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>X-Mass (with Michael Doak, Tim Corrigan &amp; Willard Petry)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Could it be? Am I only in a good mood because of the holidays, as I didn&#8217;t particularly love his other work? Well, whatever the case, I thought this book was cute. The story is that Santa gets his butt kicked by a group of Christmas super villains: Dr. Fruitcake, Ornament Lad, Light String and Figgy Pudding. They&#8217;re out to ruin the 12 days of Christmas one day at a time, so Santa has to call on some friends (hey, it&#8217;s no mystery, just look at the cover) to help him. Everything is done in rhyme and, while that might be annoying to some, there&#8217;s not much bad you can say about somebody who uses &#8220;forsooth&#8221; for a rhyme. It&#8217;s entirely possible that this would only be entertaining about three days out of the year, but today (12\/24\/02) I loved every bit of it. Contact info is above, send him $1.75 and relive the holiday!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/xmass2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"623\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website X-Mass (with Michael Doak, Tim Corrigan &amp; Willard Petry) Could it be? Am I only in a good mood because of the holidays, as I didn&#8217;t particularly love his other work? Well, whatever the case, I thought this book was cute. The story is that Santa gets his butt kicked by a group of [&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":[2587,2590,2588,2589,776],"class_list":["post-8650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-michael-carroll","tag-michael-doak","tag-tim-corrigan","tag-willard-petry","tag-x-mass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650","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=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8654,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}