{"id":14,"date":"2007-09-26T19:12:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T23:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2007-09-26T19:13:16","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T23:13:16","slug":"weve-got-spaghetti-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve got spaghetti!  And&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blankets_(graphic_novel)\">Blankets<\/a> is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson.  I started rereading it today during the last few moments of my lunch break and finished it just now.<\/p>\n<p><strike>I could probably recommend it enough, but assuming medical science isn&#8217;t going to let either of us live past 200 years old, neither you nor I have enough time.<\/strike>  Got a little carried away there; sometimes my praise gets away from me.  It&#8217;s a fine story and the art matches it well.  I&#8217;ll leave it at that.  Many aspects of the story evoke strikingly similar memories of my own childhood and adolescence, so for me it&#8217;s particularly poignant.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Craig relates how he and his brother would walk atop iced-over snow as far as possible without breaking through the crust.  I did the *exact* same thing on the sand around Crooked Lake (Lake Calusa, officially) when I was a kid.  The sun would dry a similar crust onto the beach after a rain, and I would try (and often succeed for a while) to walk across it without breaking through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blankets is a graphic novel by Craig Thompson. I started rereading it today during the last few moments of my lunch break and finished it just now. I could probably recommend it enough, but assuming medical science isn&#8217;t going to let either of us live past 200 years old, neither you nor I have enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-life","category-serious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fanglord.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}