{"id":1898,"date":"2018-05-22T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T04:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2018-12-18T22:31:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T03:31:44","slug":"superman-secret-identity-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/superman-secret-identity-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman: Secret Identity by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rLuRom\">Superman: Secret Identity<\/a> by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen (Illustrator) \u00a0book is about an Earth where Superman is a comic book hero, and Clark Kent is a boy who grew up in Kansas hating Superman &#8212; because of the name, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>I get it. I was born a Kent too. (According to one site I checked, Kent is the 778th most popular surname in the United States, so there are quite a lot of us.) I didn&#8217;t get nearly as much teasing as my brother (who is not named Clark), and certainly not as much as Clark Kent in this book gets &#8212; because his family all thought it was hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>But just like every kid, I wondered if I was a superhero, or a mutant, or any of those things (It was a little too early to wonder if I was a wizard.) And I wish I&#8217;d had this book at 13 or 15 or even 25 to remind me that superheroes lives aren&#8217;t any easier, nor are they any harder, they&#8217;re just different. And ultimately, that somehow makes it all okay.<\/p>\n<p>Update: It&#8217;s hard to capture in one post how much this story meant to me. Six months later, just thinking about it still makes my heart ache in a good way. Hopefully you&#8217;ll get as much out of it as I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superman: Secret Identity by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen (Illustrator) \u00a0book is about an Earth where Superman is a comic book hero, and Clark Kent is a boy who grew up in Kansas hating Superman &#8212; because of the name, obviously. I get it. I was born a Kent too. (According to one site I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/superman-secret-identity-by\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superman: Secret Identity by&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[25,27,28,24],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impressions","tag-comics","tag-stuart-immonen","tag-superman","tag-superman-secret-identity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-uC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}