{"id":2156,"date":"2011-05-11T14:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2011-05-11T14:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:38:29","slug":"id_buy_this_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/11\/id_buy_this_book\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;d Buy This Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nifty piece of artwork here by a cat named <a href=\"http:\/\/philnoto.tumblr.com\/post\/5364445228\/han-solo-and-the-dantooine-delilah\">Phil Noto<\/a>: <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"han-solo_pulp-cover.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jasonbennion.com\/images\/han-solo_pulp-cover.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" height=\"700\" width=\"461\" \/> <\/div>\n<div>There are, of course, quite a few <i>Star Wars<\/i> tie-in novels that focus on everyone&#8217;s favorite Corellian smuggler pilot, but none sport a cover done in the style of classic 1960s pulp paperbacks, and that really is a shame, you know? As a lover of that era&#8217;s commercial illustration aesthetic, I almost wish my favorite movie had been made 10 years earlier. Yeah, I would&#8217;ve missed seeing it in the theaters and all, but just think of all the cool book covers that would&#8217;ve come out!<\/p>\n<p>No? Okay, fine, I&#8217;ll just enjoy the post-modern retro-fantasy stuff then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, this came to my attention via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/05\/11\/han-solo-pulp-novel.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>. Naturally. <\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nifty piece of artwork here by a cat named Phil Noto: There are, of course, quite a few Star Wars tie-in novels that focus on everyone&#8217;s favorite Corellian smuggler pilot, but none sport a cover done in the style of classic 1960s pulp paperbacks, and that really is a shame, you know? As a lover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-architecture","category-star-wars","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}