{"id":1214,"date":"2008-04-30T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/04\/30\/free-comic-book-day\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T03:40:00","slug":"free-comic-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/04\/30\/free-comic-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Comic Book Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;re currently <a href=\"http:\/\/malum-iter.com\/RoadTripCatsMMVIII\/\">traveling<\/a>, and I don&#8217;t have the time or access to resources I would at home, I get my news from an odd variety of sources.  For example, it was a hotel copy of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">USA Today<\/span>, perused over breakfast, that reminded me of the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/freecomicbookday.com\/\">Free Comic Book Day<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freecomicbookday.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/hotsheet\/uploaded_images\/FCBD08date-799819.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Free Comic Book Day\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, FCBD coincides with the release of the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Iron Man<\/span> movie.  However, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Iron Man<\/span> is not one of the free comics being offered&#8211;he only appears as one of the heroes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/freecomicbookday.com\/download\/3p_samples\/Marvel_Spider_Man-FCBD08sample.pdf\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Marvel Adventures<\/span><\/a> title.  Isn&#8217;t that (wait for it) <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">ironic<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!  I&#8217;ll be here all week!<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;re currently traveling, and I don&#8217;t have the time or access to resources I would at home, I get my news from an odd variety of sources. For example, it was a hotel copy of USA Today, perused over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}