{"id":35824,"date":"2024-10-22T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T17:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=35824"},"modified":"2024-10-22T13:51:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T17:51:45","slug":"episode-4-why-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/22\/episode-4-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Say What Happened? Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another trip back to when teen me strode through the Marvel Bullpen like, well, a big teenager, as I share what I remember (and what I&#8217;ve forgotten) about writing the Avengers, what Marvel&#8217;s paying Assistant Editors these days vs. what I was paid in 1975, why Steve Gerber called me the most violent man on Earth, the way Conan caused me to write my first short story, the embarrassing cover letter I wrote at age 16 to accompany my first short story submission, how I unwittingly destroyed my comic book collection, what Dennis Etchison wrote in an acceptance letter which made me cry, and more.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/33571012\/height\/75\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/no\/\" height=\"75\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy my meandering!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another trip back to when teen me strode through the Marvel Bullpen like, well, a big teenager, as I share what I remember (and what I&#8217;ve forgotten) about writing the Avengers, what Marvel&#8217;s paying Assistant Editors these days vs. what I was paid in 1975, why Steve Gerber called me the most [&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":[1018],"class_list":["post-35824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-why-not-say-what-happened"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35824","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=35824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35833,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35824\/revisions\/35833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}