{"id":1730,"date":"2015-05-11T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2015-05-11T16:14:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T20:14:25","slug":"podcast-of-the-week-24-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/05\/11\/podcast-of-the-week-24-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast of the Week 24: Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_1730'] = [\n{id: 1733, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/05\/4888065488_870e431f8d_b_.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/05\/4888065488_870e431f8d_b_-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/05\/11\/podcast-of-the-week-24-heroes\/4888065488_870e431f8d_b_\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>4888065488_870e431f8d_b_<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/05\/11\/podcast-of-the-week-24-heroes\/4888065488_870e431f8d_b_\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p>From our visit by artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings to every blockbuster that&#8217;s bound to come with the heat, it&#8217;s hard not to look back at this year and forward into the summer without considering our stir around heroes. Who these heroes are (from the mundane to extravagant), how they&#8217;re created, mediated, represented, and how they must be represented, created, and mediated.<\/p>\n<p>In this updated version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/play_full.php?play=508\"><em>This American Life<\/em>&#8216;s episode &#8220;Superpowers&#8221; <\/a>host Ira Glass interviews comic artist Chris Ware (whose works include the acclaimed <em>Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth<\/em> and <em>Building Stories<\/em>), and several of the above questions are explored among others.<\/p>\n<div id=\"this-american-life-508\" class=\"this-american-life\" style=\"width: 540px\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1733\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1730\" data-imgid=\"1733\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/05\/4888065488_870e431f8d_b_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1733\" class=\"wp-image-1733 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/05\/4888065488_870e431f8d_b_-e1431371395382.jpg\" alt=\"4888065488_870e431f8d_b_\" width=\"488\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">via This American Life, art by Chris Ware<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our visit by artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings to every blockbuster that&#8217;s bound to come with the heat, it&#8217;s hard not to look back at this year and <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/05\/11\/podcast-of-the-week-24-heroes\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Podcast of the Week 24: Heroes<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2790,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}