{"id":59,"date":"2007-09-18T18:56:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T18:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chestercomix.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/18\/welcome-2\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T18:56:55","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T18:56:55","slug":"welcome-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/welcome-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the new Chester Comix website!<\/p>\n<p>It will be much more interactive than the previous version, with photos, fun stuff, new teachers guide material and a weekly blog posting from me about the latest in history and graphic novels. It&#8217;s an exciting time for this unique American art form, and I&#8217;ll share each new step of the way with you! For example, I&#8217;m looking forward to being at the Ohio State University&#8217;s Festival of Cartoon Art in October for a three-day discussion of graphic novels and nonfiction storytelling. Ohio State has one of the biggest collections of cartoon originals in the United States and hosts an academic conference every three years. I last went in 2001, just weeks after 9\/11. It was a powerful session for reaffirming American values and an American art form.I&#8217;ll let you all know what happens at this one! In the meantime, keep checking back here for the latest updates on my work and the way comix can boost literacy and test scores &#8212; I&#8217;ll soon have charts showing how my books meet each state&#8217;s social studies standards!<\/p>\n<p>Have fun reading!<\/p>\n<p>Bentley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the new Chester Comix website! It will be much more interactive than the previous version, with photos, fun stuff, new teachers guide material and a weekly blog posting from me about the latest in history and graphic novels. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/welcome-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","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=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chestercomix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}