{"id":19999,"date":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=quondam-by-barry-rodges"},"modified":"2010-02-06T14:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T20:47:06","slug":"quondam-by-barry-rodges","status":"publish","type":"wpsc-product","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?wpsc-product=quondam-by-barry-rodges","title":{"rendered":"Quondam by Barry Rodges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No way! No way in hell can I break this down into any kind of logical sense. Usually there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at least something from the real world for his books to ground me, ever so slightly, in reality. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the case here at all. Still, this is why they pay me the big bucks, so let me try to make some sense of this. There are these two, um, creatures, you see, and they meet each other and become instant \u00e2\u20ac\u0153friends\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I put that in quotes for a reason, but let me build up to it, OK? On their travels they meet another odd creature who seems to want to start a fight, so an epic struggle ensues. The two original monsters get a bit mixed up, forming a giant superbeast\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 oh screw it, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to give away the ending, even if it does imply that the original two monsters were a bit more than friends. This is all assuming that I was right to begin with in my interpretation of the story, which might be hoping for a bit much. There aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t many people who entertain me more these days than Barry Rodges because I have absolutely no idea what to expect from him, he has yet to disappoint, and he seems to crank these things out. This is $4, which is a bit steep (except it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all in color), so do me a favor: if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re curious about the guy, I have plenty of books that are only $1 or $2 in my online store, so check out a couple of the cheapies. Then, once you get what it is I see in the guy, maybe you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll want to spend a bit more cash. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my theory anyway, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a free country, so do what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_wpsc_stock":"0","_wpsc_price":"4","_wpsc_special_price":"4","_wpsc_sku":"","footnotes":""},"product_tag":[],"wpsc_product_category":[5713,4747],"wpsc-variation":[],"class_list":["post-19999","wpsc-product","type-wpsc-product","status-publish","hentry","wpsc_product_category-barry-rodges","wpsc_product_category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/19999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/wpsc-product"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/wpsc-product\/19999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=19999"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc_product_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc_product_category&post=19999"},{"taxonomy":"wpsc-variation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwpsc-variation&post=19999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}