{"id":17210,"date":"2009-06-24T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T02:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17210"},"modified":"2014-12-29T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:23:59","slug":"it-was-35-years-ago-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/24\/it-was-35-years-ago-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It was 35 years ago today …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… that I began my staff position at Marvel Comics as Associate Editor in the British Reprint Department.<\/p>\n

More importantly, it was the day I met my wife.<\/p>\n

I’ve shared these photos before, but on a day like today, I feel moved to share them again.<\/p>\n

Here I am at my desk in the Bullpen, a wall of that month’s covers behind me:<\/p>\n

\"MarvelBullpen1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s my Marvel Comics ID, with a photo taken, I believe, one year into my employment there:<\/p>\n

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

There’s no possible way I could overstate how that day changed my life.<\/p>\n

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t pause to mourn and remember Duffy Vohland, who died of AIDS in 1982, and without whom that day would never have occurred. Thanks for everything, Duffy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… that I began my staff position at Marvel Comics as Associate Editor in the British Reprint Department. More importantly, it was the day I met my wife. I’ve shared these photos before, but on a day like today, I feel moved to share them again. Here I am at my desk in the Bullpen, […]<\/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],"class_list":["post-17210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics","tag-marvel-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210","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=17210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17211,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17210\/revisions\/17211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}