{"id":1860,"date":"2011-02-27T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-27T09:52:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T14:52:18","slug":"the-essential-defenders-vol-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/comic-books\/the-essential-defenders-vol-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Defenders Vol. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When William Faulkner said that&#8212;&#8221;The past isn&#8217;t dead. It isn&#8217;t even past.&#8221;&#8212;he might as well have been talking about me. Because there seems to be no way to escape even my smallest contribution to the content of Marvel Comics in the &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Essential-Defenders-Vol-Marvel-Essentials\/dp\/0785121501\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1298817763&#038;sr=8-3\"><em>The Essential Defenders Vol. 2<\/em><\/a>, which reprints  \u201cEelar Moves in Mysterious Ways\u201d from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/comic-books\/giant-size-defenders-5-july-1975\/\"><em>Giant-Size Defenders<\/em> #5<\/a>, the first comic I ever had a hand in plotting. <\/p>\n<p>My past is forever catching up with me &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When William Faulkner said that&#8212;&#8221;The past isn&#8217;t dead. It isn&#8217;t even past.&#8221;&#8212;he might as well have been talking about me. Because there seems to be no way to escape even my smallest contribution to the content of Marvel Comics in the &#8217;70s. Case in point: The Essential Defenders Vol. 2, which reprints \u201cEelar Moves in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1861,"parent":30,"menu_order":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1860","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1860\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}