{"id":9004,"date":"2010-04-23T02:12:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T07:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9004"},"modified":"2010-03-26T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T18:18:15","slug":"cook-greg-hear-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9004","title":{"rendered":"Cook, Greg &#8211; Hear-Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregcookland.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/cook.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"364\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hear-Say<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The wordless minis (or graphic novels, for that matter) have always been more about reading them than talking about them. Sure, a bunch of stuff happens, or very few things happen, whatever. But they invariably have to be read to be appreciated. In the case of Hear-Say, it&#8217;s an old man going through his daily routine without being able to (or without wanting to, depending on your interpretation) hear what&#8217;s going on around him. It&#8217;s a simple story and it has a simple, powerful message. He also has a very sparse drawing style that perfectly illustrates the daily minutia that goes on in the story. The wordless minis always, for me at least, evoke a very visceral reaction of like or dislike, and I liked this one quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/27.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Hear-Say The wordless minis (or graphic novels, for that matter) have always been more about reading them than talking about them. Sure, a bunch of stuff happens, or very few things happen, whatever. But they invariably have to be read to be appreciated. In the case of Hear-Say, it&#8217;s an old man going through [&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":[2644,880],"class_list":["post-9004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-greg-cook","tag-hear-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004","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=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9006,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions\/9006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}