{"id":969,"date":"2019-05-02T08:12:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T15:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=969"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:52:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:52:05","slug":"123-a-wooden-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/123-a-wooden-heel\/","title":{"rendered":"123 &#8211; A Wooden Heel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/green-lantern-wood.png\" alt=\"A panel from Green Lantern, All-American Comics #17, June 1940\" class=\"wp-image-970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/green-lantern-wood.png 602w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/green-lantern-wood-221x300.png 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Green Lantern, All-American Comics #17, June 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In All-American Comics #17 (June 1940), the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Lantern\">Green Lantern<\/a> story introduces the first example in comic book superheroes of an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Achilles%27_heel\">Achilles&#8217; Heel<\/a>, a specific vulnerability or weakness that could defeat the superhero. The Golden Age Green Lantern (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Scott\">Alan Scott<\/a>) has a specific weakness to wood (non-metals). The Silver Age Green Lantern (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hal_Jordan\">Hal Jordan<\/a>) would have a similarly arbitrary weakness to the color yellow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In All-American Comics #17 (June 1940), the Green Lantern story introduces the first example in comic book superheroes of an Achilles&#8217; Heel, a specific vulnerability or weakness that could defeat the superhero. The Golden Age Green Lantern (Alan Scott) has a specific weakness to wood (non-metals). The Silver Age Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,165,14,32,74],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-achilles-heel","tag-dc","tag-firsts","tag-green-lantern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","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=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}