{"id":28277,"date":"2012-06-01T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28277"},"modified":"2012-06-01T10:45:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T15:45:55","slug":"28277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28277","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;d Explain The Costumes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/national\/dc_comics_green_lantern_to_be_revealed_Yt2uNktuzmrrWSbkIRIDbO?utm_source=SFnewyorkpost&amp;utm_medium=SFnewyorkpost\">DC Comics&#8217; move to create a gay superhero<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wonder if they\u2019ll make his partner a side-kick named Lavender Lantern?<\/p>\n<p>This is either a brilliant move- targeting comics for all the gay guys who collect baseball cards and action figurines and read comic books \u2013 and will earn them billions of dollars in new sales;<\/p>\n<p>Or it\u2019s the dumbest idea since New Coke.<\/p>\n<p>I will wager a brand-new nickel that Gay Green Lantern is killed off by Evil Straight Religious Wacko White Guy before January 1, 2014. Takers?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never, ever, EVER any action on a bet like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes about DC Comics&#8217; move to create a gay superhero: I wonder if they\u2019ll make his partner a side-kick named Lavender Lantern? This is either a brilliant move- targeting comics for all the gay guys who collect baseball cards and action figurines and read comic books \u2013 and will earn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28279,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28277\/revisions\/28279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}