{"id":3085,"date":"2011-09-21T23:25:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T03:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2011-09-21T23:25:37","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T03:25:37","slug":"the-day-i-made-stan-lee-burn-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/21\/the-day-i-made-stan-lee-burn-money\/","title":{"rendered":"The day I made Stan Lee burn money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1975, a much younger me caused a much younger Stan Lee to burn money. Well &#8230; <em>pretend<\/em> to burn money, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It was staged for a subscription ad I&#8217;d written which appeared on the inside back cover of <em>Crazy<\/em> #14. The fake flames, which today would have been Photoshopped in, were quite obviously airbrushed.<\/p>\n<p>As I recall, he required no coaxing to go along with this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StarLeeCrazy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StarLeeCrazy-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"StarLeeCrazy\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StarLeeCrazy-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StarLeeCrazy-758x1024.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/StarLeeCrazy.jpg 1603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I happen to remember  I used to see Stan each day for years, I can&#8217;t help but think &#8230; wow.<\/p>\n<p>Man, was I lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1975, a much younger me caused a much younger Stan Lee to burn money. Well &#8230; pretend to burn money, anyway. It was staged for a subscription ad I&#8217;d written which appeared on the inside back cover of Crazy #14. The fake flames, which today would have been Photoshopped in, were quite obviously [&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-3085","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\/3085","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=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}