{"id":125,"date":"2020-09-07T21:39:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T01:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2020-09-07T21:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T01:39:33","slug":"becoming-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/125\/becoming-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/40651648-becoming-superman\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/40651648-becoming-superman\">Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/2689.J_Michael_Straczynski\">J. Michael Straczynski<\/a><br><br>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2909060322\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>This book is amazing. Not always in good ways.<br><br>I&#8217;ve admired Straczynski&#8217;s work for many years. I really liked <em>The Real Ghostbusters<\/em>, loved <em>Babylon 5<\/em>, and I have many of his comic books (including <em>Spider-Man<\/em>, <em>Rising Stars<\/em>, and <em>Midnight Nation<\/em>). Maybe on some level I envied his success, but not any longer. I wouldn&#8217;t want to go through what he went through to get to where he got. I&#8217;m just glad that I have been able to enjoy so much of his work. And maybe I&#8217;m just a little bit more inspired to work a bit harder on my own creative projects.<br><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/30939430-carl-klutzke\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Becoming Superman: My Journey from Poverty to Hollywood by J. Michael Straczynski My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book is amazing. Not always in good ways. I&#8217;ve admired Straczynski&#8217;s work for many years. I really liked The Real Ghostbusters, loved Babylon 5, and I have many of his comic books (including Spider-Man, Rising Stars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}