{"id":1007,"date":"2010-09-30T21:31:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T01:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:36:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T19:36:29","slug":"the-first-remainder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/the-first-remainder\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Remainder."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_01591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1008\" alt=\"The Used One\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_01591-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_01591-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_01591-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_01591-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow. A milestone! The First Time I Saw One of My Books in a Used Bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>Today, at the popular Book Exchange on Jamestown Road in Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe a good thing? It means my stuff is out there, people are trying them. Not everyone will like what they read. Comix are a hard art form to navigate if you haven&#8217;t read any since Archie and Jughead when you were 7.<\/p>\n<p>But I couldn&#8217;t stop staring &#8212; like finding one of my homemade cupcakes in the trash at the company picnic, with one bite out of it. I know in my head that used Chester Comix are out there &#8212; you can see them advertised on Amazon. But I&#8217;ve never physically come face-to-cover with one in all the used bookstores I love to cruise.<\/p>\n<p>I resisted the urge to pull a Paddington and write a note to stick inside it: &#8220;Please take care of this book.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. A milestone! The First Time I Saw One of My Books in a Used Bookstore. Today, at the popular Book Exchange on Jamestown Road in Williamsburg. Maybe a good thing? It means my stuff is out there, people are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/the-first-remainder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[165,27,31,45,127],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors-purpose","tag-authors-purpose","tag-bentley-boyd","tag-bookstore","tag-chester-comix","tag-revolutionary-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}