{"id":8971,"date":"2010-04-23T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2010-03-26T13:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:03:40","slug":"conrad-peter-editor-swell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8971","title":{"rendered":"Conrad, Peter (editor) &#8211; Swell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterconrad.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/swell.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"536\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0967026814\/xeroxarmy-20\">Swell<\/a> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?page_id=3417&amp;category=2&amp;product_id=368\" target=\"_blank\">Now Available!<\/a> $7.95<\/p>\n<p>Another day, another random mish-mash of an anthology. I really had high hopes for this one too. It&#8217;s edited by Peter Conrad and here are just some of the names in it (don&#8217;t you hate it when people do that? You know that they&#8217;re always leaving off the lesser-known people for no good reason): Sam Henderson, Neil Fitzpatrick, Jesse Reklaw, Keith Knight, Carrie McNinch, James Kochalka, John Hankiewicz, David Lasky and Ted Rall. It&#8217;s an OK book, but very few things stand out when you get done reading it. The Sam Henderson and James Kochalka stories weren&#8217;t even funny, and those are usually a sure thing. Keith Knight, John Hankiewicz, Neil Fitzpatrick and Ted Rall were the highlights for me. Everything else was somewhere between pretty good and unremarkable. It&#8217;s cheap at $7.95 and you can&#8217;t beat that lineup, but&#8230; eh.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/swell2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Swell Now Available! $7.95 Another day, another random mish-mash of an anthology. I really had high hopes for this one too. It&#8217;s edited by Peter Conrad and here are just some of the names in it (don&#8217;t you hate it when people do that? You know that they&#8217;re always leaving off the lesser-known people [&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":[2636,2396,2182,2637,1812,2635,2638,2634,2639,879,2640],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-carrie-mcninch","tag-david-lasky","tag-james-kochalka","tag-jesse-reklaw","tag-john-hankiewicz","tag-keith-knight","tag-neil-fitzpatrick","tag-peter-conrad","tag-sam-henderon","tag-swell","tag-ted-rall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","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=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8980,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions\/8980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}