{"id":1272,"date":"2007-08-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2007-08-14T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T11:00:00","slug":"on-mike-wieringo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"On Mike Wieringo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/Chicago_07\/Ringo.html\">Comic book artist Mike Wieringo died suddenly over the weekend<\/a>.  He was 44.<\/p>\n<p>Wieringo and I shared a birthday &mdash; June 24th.  Not something I knew until today.  Jack Dempsey, I knew that one.  But not Mike Wieringo.<\/p>\n<p>I was familiar with Wieringo&#8217;s work only glancingly.  I&#8217;d stopped reading <i>The Flash<\/i> not long before Wieringo took up the artistic chores on the comic, but though I liked the style he brought to the book I was cutting back on my purchases at the time.  (And truthfully, I wasn&#8217;t sure how much further <i>The Flash<\/i> could go.  Anyone who&#8217;s familiar with <i>The Flash<\/i> would probably say, &#8220;You&#8217;d be fucking surprised where Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo went.&#8221;  Yep, even I make bone-headed decisions.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame.  He was forty-four.  Sudden heart attack.  From all reports he was the healthiest person on the face of the earth.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic book artist Mike Wieringo died suddenly over the weekend. He was 44. Wieringo and I shared a birthday &mdash; June 24th. Not something I knew until today. Jack Dempsey, I knew that one. But not Mike Wieringo. I was familiar with Wieringo&#8217;s work only glancingly. I&#8217;d stopped reading The Flash not long before Wieringo<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1272\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Mike Wieringo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-obituary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}