{"id":46,"date":"2005-05-02T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2005-05-02T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-03T02:47:00","slug":"seven-soldiers-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Seven Soldiers Envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you, I&#8217;m sure, I marvel at the breadth and sweep of Grant Morrison&#8217;s new *Seven Soldiers* project &#8212; seven four-issue miniseres, bookended by extra-length prologue and epilogue chapters, all released over the span of about a year. And that&#8217; s not even the total of Grant&#8217;s output for the year. Incredible.  How can any one writer&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Uh, wait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My life, circa 1975:<\/strong> Dialogue current *Defenders*. Plot next *Man-Thing*. Dialogue current *Man-Thing*. Plot next *Marvel Two-in-One*. Dialogue current *Marvel Two-in-One*. Plot next *Tales of the Zombie*. Dialogue current *Zombie*. Dialogue new current *Defenders*&#8230;etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>*I* used to write about four books a month. Forty-eight freaking books a year.  *I* did.  Not &#8220;any one writer&#8221; &#8212; *this* one writer!<\/p>\n<p>None of which is meant to disparage Grant&#8217;s achievement. Rather, it&#8217;s meant as contrast to the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>My life, circa 2005:<\/strong> Finish *Hard Time* script.  Collapse for two days.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got an existential problem here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you, I&#8217;m sure, I marvel at the breadth and sweep of Grant Morrison&#8217;s new *Seven Soldiers* project &#8212; seven four-issue miniseres, bookended by extra-length prologue and epilogue chapters, all released over the span of about a year. And that&#8217; s not even the total of Grant&#8217;s output for the year. Incredible. How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}