{"id":139,"date":"2002-12-17T23:59:31-05:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-18T07:59:31+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2002-12-17T23:59:31-05:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-18T07:59:31+00:00","slug":"the-view-from-the-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/12\/17\/the-view-from-the-porch\/","title":{"rendered":"The View from the&nbsp;Porch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>For the last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve been looking for <cite>The View from the Porch<\/cite>, an essay by <a href=\"http:\/\/worldsofjms.com\/\">J. Michael Straczynski<\/a> from departed site psycomic.com.  Even The Internet Archive&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/\">Wayback Machine<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have it.  The closest I&#8217;ve gotten is <a href=\"http:\/\/scifi.about.com\/cs\/psycomic\/\">about.com&#8217;s annotated list of articles<\/a>, which summarizes the article: <q>JMS expresses his views on the importance of the front porch to American society. As a bonus side story he also talks about his childhood love of comic books.<\/q><\/p>\n\n<p>It&#8217;s frustrating, because this is the kind of thing I&#8217;d normally make a copy of, and moreso because I thought I had when I saw that Psycomic was going away.  I&#8217;m hoping, in the spirit of <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2002\/12\/17\/its_all_out_there_just_hard_to_find.html\" title=\"It's all out there, just hard to find\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, that someone else may have kept a copy they&#8217;d be willing to share.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/adweek\/creative\/top20_20years\/bartles.jsp\">Thank you for your support.<\/a><\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the last couple of weeks I&#8217;ve been looking for The View from the Porch, an essay by J. Michael Straczynski from departed site psycomic.com. Even The Internet Archive&#8217;s Wayback Machine doesn&#8217;t have it. The closest I&#8217;ve gotten is about.com&#8217;s annotated list of articles, which summarizes the article: JMS expresses his views on the importance&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}