{"id":3130,"date":"2011-07-06T08:47:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2019-11-25T20:07:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T01:07:26","slug":"what-i-miss-about-comicsharry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/07\/06\/what-i-miss-about-comicsharry-says\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Miss About Comics – Harry Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I couldn’t find a more pleasant way of earning money.<\/em>
\n -HARRY KEVORKIAN, Mich.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t find a more pleasant way of earning money. -HARRY KEVORKIAN, Mich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[335],"tags":[359,9,484,43,194,336],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-miss-about-comics","tag-ad","tag-comics","tag-easy-money","tag-humor","tag-nerd","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-Ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6281,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/23\/suck-up-sister\/","url_meta":{"origin":3130,"position":0},"title":"Suck It Up, Sister!","author":"Mrs. Crankipants","date":"January 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Sniff...sniff...I miss romance comics...sniff! 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