{"id":173,"date":"2008-04-07T21:17:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T05:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/archives\/173"},"modified":"2008-04-07T21:17:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T05:17:16","slug":"the-walking-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/archives\/173","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best comic books being produced these days is, of all things, a zombie story.  The Walking Dead is written by Robert Kirkman and illustrated by Charlie Adlard.  The background is the basic zombie story as reimagined by George Romero: most of the people in the world have turned into zombies, and our heroes have to survive.  Kirkman is basically writing a zombie movie that never ends&#8211;48 issues so far.  It&#8217;s gripping because the focus is on how people react to the end of civilization.  Kirkman tells a straightforward story, but he doesn&#8217;t follow any plot conventions.  The resulting story is wholly unpredictable and sometimes horrifying.  It&#8217;s the most unnerving thing I&#8217;ve read in years, but much too good to stop reading.  Not recommended for the squeamish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best comic books being produced these days is, of all things, a zombie story. The Walking Dead is written by Robert Kirkman and illustrated by Charlie Adlard. The background is the basic zombie story as reimagined by George Romero: most of the people in the world have turned into zombies, and our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}