{"id":14224,"date":"2008-10-17T10:32:03","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T14:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14224"},"modified":"2014-03-19T17:11:33","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T21:11:33","slug":"a-groovy-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/17\/a-groovy-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Groovy Diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Diversions of the Groovy Kind<\/i><\/a>, a blog devoted to   &#8220;the far-out comics of the Groovy Age (1967-1980),&#8221; the &#8220;Groovy Agent&#8221; has just featured <a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/really-weird-heroes-scarecrow.html\" target=\"_blank\">my character the Scarecrow<\/a> as  part of the site&#8217;s month-long Halloween Countdown 2008.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DeadofNight11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DeadofNight11-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"DeadofNight11\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DeadofNight11-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DeadofNight11.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you follow the link above, you&#8217;ll find that my second comic-book story about the Scarecrow from the December 1975 issue of <i>Marvel Spotlight<\/i> has been reproduced in full.  So if you&#8217;ve never read any of my comics, here&#8217;s your chance.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could say that it&#8217;s improved with age. It hasn&#8217;t, but hopefully, I have. Hey, cut me a break&#151;I wrote it when I was 20!<\/p>\n<p>Sharp eyes will spot a reference to the late comedian Andy Kaufman.  I wrote him into the story  after I&#8217;d seen him perform many times at the New York comedy club the Improv.  I  spoke with him at the bar one night and got his permission (whether I needed it or not) to make the reference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/comic-books\/dead-of-night-11-august-1975\/\">You can find my own write-up about the Scarecrow here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Diversions of the Groovy Kind, a blog devoted to &#8220;the far-out comics of the Groovy Age (1967-1980),&#8221; the &#8220;Groovy Agent&#8221; has just featured my character the Scarecrow as part of the site&#8217;s month-long Halloween Countdown 2008. If you follow the link above, you&#8217;ll find that my second comic-book story about the Scarecrow from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,29,136],"class_list":["post-14224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-my-writing","tag-scarecrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=14224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14226,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224\/revisions\/14226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}