{"id":3005,"date":"2005-07-21T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T20:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/07\/21\/3005.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:09","slug":"book-report-the-vampire-brat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/07\/21\/book-report-the-vampire-brat\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Vampire Brat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ah, sweet broadband.\n<p>Well, back before I left the old barn for the new barn, I raided my erstwhile-to-be library&#8217;s excellent comics shelf and picked up <I>The Vampire Brat<\/I>, by Batton Lash  of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exhibitapress.com\/index2.html\">Exhibit A Press<\/a>. This is one of the collections featuring Wolfe &amp; Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre, of whom I had never heard. Nor had I heard of Mr. Lash, although my first thought was that it was admirable that he didn&#8217;t insist on the middle initial <I>I.<\/I> on the cover, which would have ruined the joke.\n<p>That restraint (which, it&#8217;s just barely possible, is actually his parents&#8217; restraint) was not evidenced in the pages, though. The book was ... ok. There was a whole set of Ali McBeal jokes, which weren&#8217;t remotely funny from this remote year and may well not have been funny at the time. In fact, I read through the whole thing without laughing aloud or even snorting, and only a few wry smiles, before he had one of his attorneys say &#8220;Please tell the court in your own words why you want to smash puny humans.&#8221; Now <I>that&#8217;s<\/I> funny.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, sweet broadband. Well, back before I left the old barn for the new barn, I raided my erstwhile-to-be library\u2019s excellent comics shelf and picked up The Vampire Brat, by Batton Lash of Exhibit A Press. This is one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17474,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/17474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}