{"id":21009,"date":"2015-11-20T10:14:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=21009"},"modified":"2015-11-20T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:14:12","slug":"wouldnt-you-rather-be-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/20\/wouldnt-you-rather-be-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"Wouldn&#8217;t you rather be Superman?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/owillis\/status\/667452723583959041\">Oliver Willis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtBusiek\/status\/667584827030269952\">Kurt Busiek<\/a> have been posting some wonderful PSAs which DC Comics ran back in the &#8217;60s and into the &#8217;70s, and I couldn&#8217;t resist sharing a few of them here. Based on the current state of our country, they seem to have as much relevance today as they did then.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SupermanRefugees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SupermanRefugees-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"SupermanRefugees\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SupermanRefugees-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SupermanRefugees.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BatmanCrackpotLies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BatmanCrackpotLies-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"BatmanCrackpotLies\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BatmanCrackpotLies-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BatmanCrackpotLies.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SuperboyRespect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SuperboyRespect-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"SuperboyRespect\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SuperboyRespect-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/SuperboyRespect.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, DC Comics&#8212;time to update these for the 21st Century, don&#8217;t you think? Some of our politicians need to read them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Willis and Kurt Busiek have been posting some wonderful PSAs which DC Comics ran back in the &#8217;60s and into the &#8217;70s, and I couldn&#8217;t resist sharing a few of them here. Based on the current state of our country, they seem to have as much relevance today as they did then.<\/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":[144,18,46,36],"class_list":["post-21009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-batman","tag-comics","tag-dc-comics","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009","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=21009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21021,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21009\/revisions\/21021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}