{"id":15688,"date":"2014-09-16T14:03:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15688"},"modified":"2014-09-16T14:03:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:03:03","slug":"what-a-sports-fan-said-what-a-comics-fan-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/16\/what-a-sports-fan-said-what-a-comics-fan-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"What a sports fan said, what a comics fan heard"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was on the way home from Fort Lauderdale, where I’d spent a couple of weeks helping my mother pack and move (the details of which are a tale for another time), when I spotted a guy at the airport walking quickly by while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of a mustachioed man chomping a cigar.<\/p>\n

\"DitkaNotDitko\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I pointed at his chest as he passed and asked, “Stan Lee?”<\/p>\n

“No,” he said, followed by him revealing who it really was, which I heard as “Ditko.”<\/p>\n

“Ditko?” I asked, surprised. “Steve<\/em> Ditko?”<\/p>\n

“No,” he answered, baffled by my cluelessness. “Coach Ditka<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

And thus do two fans confuse each other!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was on the way home from Fort Lauderdale, where I’d spent a couple of weeks helping my mother pack and move (the details of which are a tale for another time), when I spotted a guy at the airport walking quickly by while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of a mustachioed […]<\/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":[18,20,19,148],"class_list":["post-15688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics","tag-stan-lee","tag-steve-ditko"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688","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=15688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15699,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15688\/revisions\/15699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}