{"id":278,"date":"2008-03-12T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2008\/03\/this-is-unseemly-2\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T23:27:00","slug":"this-is-unseemly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"This is Unseemly #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone and his sister has already linked to this <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB120493146397420559.html?mod=at_leisure_main_reviews_days_only\">profile of Paul Pope in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And I still agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com\/2006\/06\/reviewing-101-john-updikes-rules.html\">John Updike&#8217;s rule for critics<\/a>: &#8220;Review the book, not the reputation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But man, I have to say this makes me wish I&#8217;d been a little harder on <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Heavy Liquid<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/cage-match-2-paul-popes-heavy-liquid.html\">last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This does not reflect well on me, I know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone and his sister has already linked to this profile of Paul Pope in the Wall Street Journal. And I still agree with John Updike&#8217;s rule for critics: &#8220;Review the book, not the reputation.&#8221; But man, I have to say this makes me wish I&#8217;d been a little harder on Heavy Liquid last month. This does not reflect well on me, I know.<\/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":[272,704,1014,1291],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-vs-fashion-design","tag-updike","tag-pope","tag-this-is-unseemly"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}