{"id":9922,"date":"2010-04-23T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2010-03-29T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:44:26","slug":"hart-tom-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=9922","title":{"rendered":"Hart, Tom &#8211; Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomhart.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ramadan1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ramadan1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ramadan1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ramadan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So did this come before or after Hutch Owens?\u00c2\u00a0 Ah, comics memory, you have failed me.\u00c2\u00a0 This came out in 1997 (which is recent compared to some of the other old minis I&#8217;ve been rambling about lately), so to those of you with Google and two seconds, that question is easily answered.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder because the main character is very Hutch-like, in his quiet quest for meaning and disdain for commercialism.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, that might easily just be Tom&#8217;s point of view on the whole thing, so why wouldn&#8217;t all his characters have the same viewpoint?\u00c2\u00a0 This issue details the month of Ramadan in the life of the main character.\u00c2\u00a0 Ramadan, for those of you who don&#8217;t know (or who have heard the word but never got the definition) is the Muslim month of fasting, where they can&#8217;t do pretty much anything during daylight hours and break their fast at night with a bowl of soup.\u00c2\u00a0 Every day for 30 days.\u00c2\u00a0 Our hero wanders the town, haggles with shopkeepers, stays in touch with a friend (who is an alien with his own problems), and discusses the merits of cursing someone out in a foreign language.\u00c2\u00a0 As always with his books this all scratches the surface or his point, but it&#8217;s better found out for yourself and this one is recent enough that there&#8217;s actually a chance of you finding it if you looked hard enough.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s my theory and I&#8217;m sticking to it, as I have no interest in dissecting this comic until all the joy and meaning is taken out of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ramadan2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ramadan2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/ramadan2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"629\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Ramadan So did this come before or after Hutch Owens?\u00c2\u00a0 Ah, comics memory, you have failed me.\u00c2\u00a0 This came out in 1997 (which is recent compared to some of the other old minis I&#8217;ve been rambling about lately), so to those of you with Google and two seconds, that question is easily answered.\u00c2\u00a0 I [&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":[2449,2598],"class_list":["post-9922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ramadan","tag-tom-hart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","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=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9926,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions\/9926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}