{"id":109,"date":"2007-05-01T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2007\/05\/shameless-spouse-promotion-3\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T14:47:00","slug":"shameless-spouse-promotion-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Shameless Spouse Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/RjeLCAjEP0I\/AAAAAAAAABM\/g1cXDTMYPto\/s1600-h\/200705.gif\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bp1.blogger.com\/_2v-Vwo5ul9Y\/RjeLCAjEP0I\/AAAAAAAAABM\/g1cXDTMYPto\/s320\/200705.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059665572997119810\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE BELIEVER: What\u2019s it like spending all this time mining your adolescence to find the hardest, darkest, maybe the funniest stories? Is this a way of purging these experiences? Or making sense of them?<\/p>\n<p>LAUREN WEINSTEIN: Even if you\u2019re pulling up old memories, they\u2019re completely unreliable. I remember running into this guy before our ten-year high-school reunion. He said, \u201cOh, man, what really destroyed high school for me was that I could never date anyone because I wrote that really bad, hyperconservative op-ed piece about how women should be barefoot and tied to the stove.\u201d And I thought, That\u2019s not why no one dated you. But that was his story. In general, everyone\u2019s got their own issues in high school, and they\u2019re not such a big deal to other people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014From an <a href=\"http:\/\/believermag.com\/issues\/200705\/?read=interview_weinstein\">interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenweinstein.com\/\">Lauren<\/a> included in the just-released May issue of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Believer<\/span>.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\/artist\/burns\/burns.html\">Charles Burns<\/a> drew her for the cover!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BELIEVER: What\u2019s it like spending all this time mining your adolescence to find the hardest, darkest, maybe the funniest stories? Is this a way of purging these experiences? Or making sense of them? LAUREN WEINSTEIN: Even if you\u2019re pulling up old memories, they\u2019re completely unreliable. I remember running into this guy before our ten-year high-school reunion. He said, \u201cOh, man, what really destroyed high school for me was that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[214,781,1276],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-burns","tag-weinstein","tag-believer"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}