{"id":1018,"date":"2019-05-07T08:58:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:52:28","slug":"126-up-up-and-a-glide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/126-up-up-and-a-glide\/","title":{"rendered":"126 &#8211; Up, Up, and a Glide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/superman-almost-flying.png\" alt=\"A panel from Superman #6, July 1940\" class=\"wp-image-1019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/superman-almost-flying.png 622w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/superman-almost-flying-211x300.png 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Superman #6, July 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Superman #6 (July 1940), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman\">Superman<\/a> is nearly flying.  I say nearly because other stories in this issue use the term &#8220;gliding&#8221; and show him using his cape to halt his descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By now, the DC universe has at least two characters that can fly:  Hawkman and Green Lantern.  It feels like Superman should join the club instead of awkwardly leaping everywhere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Superman #6 (July 1940), Superman is nearly flying. I say nearly because other stories in this issue use the term &#8220;gliding&#8221; and show him using his cape to halt his descent. By now, the DC universe has at least two characters that can fly: Hawkman and Green Lantern. It feels like Superman should join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,14,170,43],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-dc","tag-flight","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}