{"id":825,"date":"2010-02-01T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=825"},"modified":"2010-02-01T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:12:00","slug":"captain-america-had-a-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Captain America had a point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/S2biV0UlRqI\/AAAAAAAAEWY\/wY2kv1RfarI\/s1600-h\/marv+civil+war.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/S2biV0UlRqI\/AAAAAAAAEWY\/wY2kv1RfarI\/s400\/marv+civil+war.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>John Hobbins links to two interesting articles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1055574.html\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1055977.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I enjoy reading in my spare time is comics &#8211; occasionally called &#8216;graphic novels&#8217; at the higher reaches of the form, but, basically, comics, involving people who have large muscles and poor taste in clothing. One of the most interesting ones I&#8217;ve read recently has been the &#8216;Civil War&#8217; sequence put out by Marvel. I won&#8217;t bore you with explaining why it is that Captain America and Iron Man are slugging it out (though it IS extremely interesting social commentary) I just want to point out that there comes a point when Captain America surrenders &#8211; not because he has changed his mind about the justice of his cause, but because too many innocent bystanders are suffering because of the struggle.<\/p>\n<p>The man has a point.<br \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Hobbins links to two interesting articles here and here. One of the things I enjoy reading in my spare time is comics &#8211; occasionally called &#8216;graphic novels&#8217; at the higher reaches of the form, but, basically, comics, involving people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=825\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[67,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-dj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}