{"id":2720,"date":"2009-01-16T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2009-01-16T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:19:24","slug":"i-die-at-midnight-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2720","title":{"rendered":"I Die at Midnight for Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z011509baker_midnight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"615\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?s=kyle+baker\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?s=kyle+baker\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>I&#8217;ve talked about what a great artist and writer Kyle Baker is many times<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 On many occasions I&#8217;ve encouraged you to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/thebakersanimationcartoons.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kyle&#8217;s site<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Tonight, I&#8217;m going to once again suggest that you stop by.\u00a0 If you do,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thebakersanimationcartoons.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/read-i-die-at-midnight-for-free.html#links\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check out Kyle&#8217;s graphic novel, I Die at Midnight<\/strong><\/a>,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Kyle <\/strong>posted up the <strong>entire book<\/strong> which can be read <strong>for free<\/strong>, and told me:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I thought this might be a <strong>cool  experiment<\/strong>, since I had the PDF anyway.\u00a0 If people respond well, I\u2019ve got about  <strong>20 books<\/strong> to follow it up with.\u00a0 It might be nice to turn my site into a<strong> public  library.<\/strong> We\u2019ll see if people download it.\u00a0\u00a0 The fascinating thing about the  web is the access to statistics. I\u2019m often surprised at which posts get the most  hits.\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ll see if this is popular.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How cool is that?\u00a0 Most folks would post up a <strong>preview<\/strong> and then try to get you to buy the book.\u00a0<strong> Kyle <\/strong>not only posts it up in its entirety, but talks about doing the same with his other books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Kyle Baker<\/strong> is a great artist and writer &#8212; he&#8217;s a generous one as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve talked about what a great artist and writer Kyle Baker is many times.\u00a0 On many occasions I&#8217;ve encouraged you<\/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":[58,61,56,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-authors","category-comics","category-humor","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","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=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}