{"id":3117,"date":"2021-01-05T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2020-12-07T11:09:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:09:57","slug":"551-the-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/551-the-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"551 &#8211; The Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monkey-back.png\" alt=\"A panel from Shock SuspenStories #12, September 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monkey-back.png 900w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monkey-back-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monkey-back-768x488.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Shock SuspenStories #12, September 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3064\">tale about drug use<\/a> from EC&#8217;s Shock SuspenStories #12 (September 1953): The Monkey.  This one is a pretty brutal take on a young man who goes from marijuana user to heroin addict within a year.  He ends up stealing from his parents who discover his habit.  He storms out after hitting his father with a lamp because he doesn&#8217;t want to go &#8220;cold turkey&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monkey-withdrawal.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monkey-withdrawal.png 546w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monkey-withdrawal-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monkey-withdrawal-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Shock SuspenStories #12, September 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>That may be the first time the word &#8220;diarrhea&#8221; has made it into a comic book.  He ends up in a cheap hotel room where a cop finds him and arrests him for murdering his father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These ain&#8217;t your kid&#8217;s comic books anymore!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another tale about drug use from EC&#8217;s Shock SuspenStories #12 (September 1953): The Monkey. This one is a pretty brutal take on a young man who goes from marijuana user to heroin addict within a year. He ends up stealing from his parents who discover his habit. He storms out after hitting his father with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,541,532,350,501],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-adult","tag-drug-use","tag-ec","tag-socially-relevant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","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=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}