{"id":559,"date":"2006-12-04T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2006-12-04T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T17:27:14","slug":"for-the-public-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"For the Public Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icv2.com\/articles\/home\/9710.html\">ICv2 News &#8211; First Second&#8217;s Mark Siegel on &#8216;American Born Chinese&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite what one might assume solely from reading the tons and tons of (well-deserved) interviews with recent National Book Award nominee Gene Yang, the man did not materialize ex-nihilo on the front stoop of First Second publishing.&nbsp; He self-published comics for a bit and was the recipient of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xericfoundation.com\/xericcomicgrants.html\">Xeric Grant<\/a>, and then was published by <a href=\"http:\/\/slavelabor.com\">Slave Labor Graphics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just getting that out there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICv2 News &#8211; First Second&#8217;s Mark Siegel on &#8216;American Born Chinese&#8217; Despite what one might assume solely from reading the tons and tons of (well-deserved) interviews with recent National Book Award nominee Gene Yang, the man did not materialize ex-nihilo on the front stoop of First Second publishing.&nbsp; He self-published comics for a bit and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=559\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-91","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}