{"id":8644,"date":"2020-12-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8644"},"modified":"2020-12-07T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:58:57","slug":"24-days-of-quarantine-fun-day-9-holiday-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=8644","title":{"rendered":"24 Days of Quarantine Fun – Day 9: Holiday Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t know about you, but I sure as heck don’t have any reading material that’s holiday-appropriate by any means. There may be some good holiday novels out there, but in my experience it’s all sappy dreck. So I don’t know why I thought that this was a good idea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, wait! There’s a faint glimmer of light in the darkness – comics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep, I’ve pored over all the comics I own (which is not many, but probably still more than you would assume), and I’ve found… exactly one<\/em> special issue. Well, it’s something<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Hack\/Slash Omnibus Volume 4,<\/em> we have The Gift of Hack\/Slash<\/em>. Now, you’re probably not familiar with Hack\/Slash, and honestly I wouldn’t blame you for it. This is a comic series which -to put it very briefly- is about a duo of vigilantes who hunt down “slashers”, which is a cute way of saying “villains inspired by horror movies”. And also sometimes there are crossovers with actual villains from horror movies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truth be told, this isn’t really even much of a holiday special. It’s four pages long and you have to squint really hard to see any holiday-related meaning. It’s all in that cover. And that’s all I’ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did once win a more holiday-themed novel as part of a raffle prize basket, but I immediately gave it to my mom because it was clearly just shlocky romantic nonsense. And I do not<\/em> tolerate romance in my shlocky nonsense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know about you, but I sure as heck don’t have any reading material that’s holiday-appropriate by any means. There may be some good holiday novels out there, but in my experience it’s all sappy dreck. So I don’t know why I thought that this was a good idea. Oh, wait! There’s a faint … Continue reading 24 Days of Quarantine Fun – Day 9: Holiday Reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-holidays","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8644"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8683,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8644\/revisions\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}