{"id":432,"date":"2009-01-30T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2009\/01\/comics-enriched-their-lives-10\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:15:00","slug":"comics-enriched-their-lives-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Comics Enriched Their Lives! #10"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the imaginary interviews I sometimes have with <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Paris Review<\/span> I have happily envisioned myself making long heterogeneous lists of predecessors in answer to that inevitable question: I&#8217;d say, &#8220;My lasting literary influences? Um\u2014<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Tailor of Gloucester<\/span>, Harold Nicolson, Richard Pryor, <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/s\/seuss_dr.htm\">Seuss<\/a>&#8216;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">If I Ran the Circus<\/span>, Edmund Burke, Nabokov, Boswell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tintin.com\/\">Tintin<\/a>, Iris Murdoch, Hopkins, Michael Polanyi, Henry and William James, John Candy, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">you<\/span> know, the usual crowd.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2014Nicholson Baker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/30974\/biblio\/9780679735755 \">U and I<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/30974\/biblio\/9780821261934 \">Nicholson Baker<\/a> likes comics is no shock, I know, and I <a href=\"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/comics-enriched-their-lives-4.html\">promised<\/a> I wouldn&#8217;t post any more of these things unless they were interesting, but I like this quote enough that I don&#8217;t mind being a hypocrite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the imaginary interviews I sometimes have with The Paris Review I have happily envisioned myself making long heterogeneous lists of predecessors in answer to that inevitable question: I&#8217;d say, &#8220;My lasting literary influences? Um\u2014The Tailor of Gloucester, Harold Nicolson, Richard Pryor, Seuss&#8216;s If I Ran the Circus, Edmund Burke, Nabokov, Boswell, Tintin, Iris Murdoch, Hopkins, Michael Polanyi, Henry and William James, John Candy, you know, the usual crowd.&#8221; \u2014Nicholson [&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":[264,273,373,562,965],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-enriched-their-lives","tag-comics-vs-literature","tag-dr-seuss","tag-herge","tag-n-baker"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}