{"id":11099,"date":"2014-11-27T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2014-11-23T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T16:16:06","slug":"binge-reading-the-savage-sword-of-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11099","title":{"rendered":"Binge Reading The Savage Sword of Conan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z112714savagesword_conan5cov.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"661\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Diversions of the Grooviest Kind<\/strong><\/a> recently ran <a href=\"http:\/\/diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/the-grooviest-covers-of-all-time-savage.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>a Savage Sword of Conan cover gallery<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Man, it brought back some great memories of me binge reading the <strong>Savage Sword of Conan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I started reading comic books when I was in elementary school. \u00a0Each year as I got older my comics buying dwindled. \u00a0As a senior in high school I was down to just regularly buying <strong>Master of Kung Fu<\/strong>, <strong>Marvel Team-Up<\/strong>, and an occasional odd issue of whatever popped out at me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a senior, <strong>John Beatty<\/strong> and I started hanging out again [I first met him in junior high but when I moved on to high school we drifted apart]. \u00a0<strong> John<\/strong> turned me on to the world of <strong>comics fandom<\/strong> and other <strong>mainstream comics<\/strong> that were worth checking out. \u00a0<strong>John<\/strong> loaded me down with a bunch of <strong>Savage Sword of Conan<\/strong> magazines which I took home and devoured. \u00a0It was great having several months worth of stories to dive into.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thanks to <strong>Diversions of the Grooviest Kind<\/strong> for their post that sparked the memory and thanks again to <strong>Big John<\/strong> for the loan of the magazines nearly 40 years ago!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diversions of the Grooviest Kind recently ran a Savage Sword of Conan cover gallery. \u00a0Man, it brought back some great<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[58,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11102,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11099\/revisions\/11102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}