{"id":33713,"date":"2014-04-29T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=33713"},"modified":"2014-04-29T12:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T19:44:00","slug":"burton-promotes-free-comic-book-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/04\/burton-promotes-free-comic-book-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton Promotes Free Comic Book Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33716\" alt=\"FreeComicBookDay0422914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FreeComicBookDay0422914.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FreeComicBookDay0422914.jpg 580w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FreeComicBookDay0422914-50x19.jpg 50w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FreeComicBookDay0422914-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FreeComicBookDay0422914-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FreeComicBookDay0422914-450x175.jpg 450w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FreeComicBookDay0422914-50x19@2x.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Free Comic Book Day<\/em> is fast approaching and <em>Star Trek: The Next Generatio<\/em>n&#8217;s <strong>LeVar Burton<\/strong> is helping to get the word out about the event.<\/p>\n<p>Burton can be seen in a new video promoting <em>Free Comic Book Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;My love of the written word originated with comics,&#8221; said Burton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m an army brat. My father was in the military and when we were stationed in Germany, comic books were a treasured item that we first read, and then traded with one another. They also kept us connected to the popular culture back home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On <em>Free Comic Book Day<\/em>, which falls on Saturday, May 3, this year, readers can go to their local comic book store, and choose from one of sixty free comic books.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great way to try something new,&#8221; said Burton.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about <em>Free Comic Book Day<\/em>, head to the link located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freecomicbookday.com\/Home\/1\/1\/27\/992\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oi8HNxiIsEk\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Comic Book Day is fast approaching and Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8217;s LeVar Burton&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2451,7181],"class_list":["post-33713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-burton","tag-free-comic-book-day"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33719,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33713\/revisions\/33719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}