{"id":1112,"date":"2005-08-17T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2014-12-10T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T21:35:32","slug":"like-cheap-whiskey-very-nasty-and-satisfying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"Like Cheap Whiskey, Very Nasty and Satisfying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span class=\"headlines\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/z081705name_zombie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"250\" align=\"left\" \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Today while surfing the <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">net <\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">I came across <\/span>a couple of items<span style=\"font-family: arial;\"> that should interest most <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">ZONE<\/b><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">rs. <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">The first is that <b>several authors<\/b> [including <b>Stephen King<\/b>, <b>John Grisham<\/b>, <b>Peter Straub<\/b>, <b>Neil Gaiman<\/b>, <b>Lemony Snicket<\/b>, <b>Michael Chabon<\/b> and others] are participating in an <b>auction for charity<\/b> where the <b>winning bidders<\/b> will get to <b>name a character<\/b> in each author&#8217;s novel. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">The <b>second item<\/b> of interest is directly related to the first, in that <b>Stephen King<\/b>&#8216;s participation in the auction involves a<b> new novel<\/b> titled <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Cell<\/b><\/span>. <b>King<\/b> describes <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>Cell<\/b><\/span> as &#8220;a <b>violent<\/b> piece of work, which comes complete with <b>zombies<\/b> set in motion by bad cell phone signals that destroy the human brain. <b>Like cheap whiskey, it&#8217;s very nasty and extremely satisfying<\/b>.&#8221;<b> Stephen King<\/b> and<b> zombies!<\/b> Count me in.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">And come to think of it&#8230; maybe I should take a shot at the auction as well. A <b>zombie<\/b> named <b>&#8220;Big Beatty&#8221;<\/b> is just too cool not to give it a go.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Today while surfing the net I came across a couple of items that should interest most ZONErs. The first<\/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":[61,52,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-horror","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","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=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11315,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/11315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}