{"id":573,"date":"2008-03-28T00:43:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T04:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=573"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:21:22","slug":"eat-my-shorts-and-buy-my-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2008\/03\/eat-my-shorts-and-buy-my-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat my shorts and buy my book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"simpsons_final_500.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/simpsons_final_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"439\" \/><br \/>\nAnother illo for the Publisher&#8217;s Weekly &#8220;Soapbox&#8221; column. This installment was a funny editorial was written by Mike Reiss, who has been a writer for <b>The Simpsons<\/b> for nineteen years. In an effort to reach kids with a different message than he does on TV, Mike has published eight children&#8217;s books, and enjoys the freedom of being the sole storyteller. But he doesn&#8217;t do it for the money:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;To earn what I make as a TV writer, I&#8217;d have to publish a children&#8217;s book every four hours.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Money isn&#8217;t everything though&#8230;but Homer Simpson has weighed in on this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBart, with $10,000, we&#8217;d be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like&#8230;love!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another illo for the Publisher&#8217;s Weekly &#8220;Soapbox&#8221; column. This installment was a funny editorial was written by Mike Reiss, who has been a writer for The Simpsons for nineteen years. In an effort to reach kids with a different message than he does on TV, Mike has published eight children&#8217;s books, and enjoys the freedom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[157,244,158,44,91,155,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}