{"id":15192,"date":"2008-11-11T20:06:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T01:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15192"},"modified":"2014-06-27T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T18:10:51","slug":"excelsior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/11\/excelsior\/","title":{"rendered":"Excelsior!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2008\/08\/18\/stans-raw-soapbox\/\" target=\"_blank\">the collection of Stan Lee&#8217;s &#8220;Stan&#8217;s Soapbox&#8221; columns I was telling you about back in August<\/a>?  Once I&#8217;d heard about the project, I contributed scans of a batch of Stan&#8217;s old manuscripts I&#8217;d been hanging onto since the &#8217;70s so they could be included in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the tome is finally coming out, and Stan&#8217;s done a video in support of this latest fundraising effort of the Hero initiative, a corporation which provides a safety net for comic-book creators in need of  financial support.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YfakOpuE31U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not bad for a guy who&#8217;ll be turning 86 next month!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the collection of Stan Lee&#8217;s &#8220;Stan&#8217;s Soapbox&#8221; columns I was telling you about back in August? Once I&#8217;d heard about the project, I contributed scans of a batch of Stan&#8217;s old manuscripts I&#8217;d been hanging onto since the &#8217;70s so they could be included in the book. Well, the tome is finally coming out, [&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":[20,19],"class_list":["post-15192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marvel-comics","tag-stan-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192","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=15192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15194,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15192\/revisions\/15194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}