{"id":844,"date":"2015-02-26T22:29:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T22:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/?p=844"},"modified":"2015-02-26T22:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T22:29:21","slug":"a-word-about-paraptoma-if-you-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/a-word-about-paraptoma-if-you-will\/","title":{"rendered":"A word about Paraptoma, if you will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Herakles.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-845\" src=\"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Herakles.gif\" alt=\"Herakles\" width=\"871\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My new series of short comics, Paraptoma, has been running for a few weeks now and has developed into what I think that it should be. Paraptoma is another one of the root words for biblical sin, like its predecessor Parakoe (more on that in a moment), this time essentially meaning \u201cfalling where one should have stood\u201d. I\u2019m using it as a way to explore colour and composition, and the terror of improvisation. It\u2019s like broken bits of poetry on a midnight TV screen. I\u2019m enjoying it so far and liking the results. I hope you will too.<\/p>\n<p>Why start a new story now, especially with Parakoe only a third of the way through? Well, I\u2019ve not given up on Parakoe, and I\u2019m still producing pages, but it wasn\u2019t something that worked on the site. I think if the pages had been self contained units, or there had been more action, it might have worked better, but it\u2019s essentially a story about walking up and down stairs a few times. The reader needs more to read in a chunk for that sort of story to work. I also wanted to get more out into the world than one page a week, hence the shift. It felt like the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>So, Paraptoma for the time being on the site and over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/douglasnoble.com\/\">Tumblr<\/a>, but I\u2019ll still be working on Parakoe in order to get the chapters in great shape. Keep an eye on the <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/douglasnoble\/\">Instagram feed<\/a> for in progress pictures to get a taste of where the story is going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new series of short comics, Paraptoma, has been running for a few weeks now and has developed into what I think that it should be. Paraptoma is another one of the root words for biblical sin, like its predecessor Parakoe (more on that in a moment), this time essentially meaning \u201cfalling where one should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845,"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":[7],"tags":[15,98],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-parakoe","tag-paraptoma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Herakles.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4dZll-dC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/strip-for-me.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}