{"id":930,"date":"2004-02-16T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=930"},"modified":"2004-02-16T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T20:27:00","slug":"30-dark-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"30 &amp; Dark Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/021604darkdays.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 135px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/021604darkdays.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a style=\"font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971977550\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\">30 Days of Night<\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"> was one of the best <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">vampire<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"> stories in any medium in  recent years. The fact that it was done in a <\/span><b style=\"font-family: arial;\">comic<\/b><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"> made it all the more  impressive. <\/span> <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I mean, how many people pay attention to <b>comic books<\/b>? [Thankfully the  number seems to be on the upswing.]<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><b>Steve Niles<\/b> then followed up <b>30 Days of Night<\/b> with the sequel  <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/193238216X\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\">Dark Days<\/a>. Surprisingly [well, not so surprisingly if you  follow <b>Niles<\/b>&#8216; writing], it didn&#8217;t seem like a forced sequel. And it was  good, really good.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"> <\/div>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">If you missed out on it, or if like me, you like a <b>trade edition<\/b> for  the bookshelf, then click <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/193238216X\/craizabls\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 Days of Night was one of the best vampire stories in any medium in recent years. The fact that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,56,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-comics","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\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}