{"id":1850,"date":"2009-12-22T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/22\/growing_up_hero\/"},"modified":"2009-12-22T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T15:28:00","slug":"growing_up_hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/22\/growing_up_hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Up Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A lot of single-theme blogs<\/strong> come and go, but I hope <a href=\"http:\/\/growingupheroes.com\" >Growing Up Heroes<\/a> manages to stick around for a while. It makes me ache with nostalgia of the most sincere variety. It&#8217;s basically pictures of people dressing up as their superhero or sci-fi idols as kids, and brings back vivid memories of my own attempts to do the same when I was a uncomplicated, over-imaginative, pretty nerdy kid. There&#8217;s not as much photo evidence of this as I wish, but I would where Aquaman Underoos in the backyard pool, regularly fashioned Superman-esque capes out of blankets or pajama tops, and generally spent a good chunk of the time imagining myself as a superhero. And I was so earnest about it! It&#8217;s a shame real life knocks that out of us after a while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/growingupheroes.com\/tagged\/Batman_1979\" ><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lil Batman.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/img\/lil_batman.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"493\"  vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of single-theme blogs come and go, but I hope Growing Up Heroes manages to stick around for a while. It makes me ache with nostalgia of the most sincere variety. It&#8217;s basically pictures of people dressing up as their superhero or sci-fi idols as kids, and brings back vivid memories of my own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/22\/growing_up_hero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing Up Heroes&#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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}