{"id":1059,"date":"2010-05-05T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2010-05-05T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T23:01:14","slug":"ang-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/ang-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ang &#8216;Bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/100_Bullets\" target=\"_blank\">100 Bullets<\/a> &#8211; <i>Hang Up on the Hang Low<\/i> recently when, a dozen or so pages in, I realised that the sense of familiarity I was experiencing was not just from the &#8216;old friends getting together and torturing each other&#8217; noir vibe but that <b>I&#8217;d actually read it all before<\/b>.  Twice, according to my reading diary.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand <b>The Goddess<\/b> getting halfway into a book before realising she&#8217;d read it before &#8211; she devours hundreds of books a year (and not one of them will have a speech- or thought-balloon).  My reading diary has me averaging 115 comics, scripts and books a year for the period 2006-2009.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s my excuse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading 100 Bullets &#8211; Hang Up on the Hang Low recently when, a dozen or so pages in, I realised that the sense of familiarity I was experiencing was not just from the &#8216;old friends getting together and torturing each other&#8217; noir vibe but that I&#8217;d actually read it all before. Twice, according &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/ang-bout\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Ang &#8216;Bout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[142,151],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-scriptwriting","tag-100-bullets","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}