{"id":42903,"date":"2024-10-28T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T04:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=42903"},"modified":"2024-10-28T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:11:44","slug":"foolish-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/foolish-consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolish consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of pure coincidence, check out this conversation from <i>Machine Man<\/i> #19.<\/p>\n<p>For context, while out on business, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=18442\">Machine Man<\/a> spotted a known criminal and followed him back to his hideout, and ended up getting in a fight with the whole gang. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/smhml11_jack.php\">Jack O'Lantern's<\/a> gang. These two are his friends, and are worried about why he hasn't come back yet:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/mm19hob.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"435\" alt=\"What's wrong, Spaulding? Ya think some hobgoblins grabbed our boy?\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>\"Hobgoblins\" isn't exactly the most common word in the world, even in 1980, so the term appearing <b>at all<\/b> in the comic that was the first appearance of a character who would later trade his villain identity away and become the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/smhml4_hob.php\">Hobgoblin<\/a> is a fun little coincidence (keeping mind that the Hobgoblin identity wouldn't even be created until 1982). But the fact that, in a way, Aaron <b>was<\/b> late because Hobgoblin grabbed him is happenstance of incredible proportions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a case of pure coincidence, check out this conversation from Machine Man #19. For context, while out on business, Machine Man spotted a known criminal and followed him back to his hideout, and ended up getting in a fight &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/foolish-consistency\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,160,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-comics","category-marvel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42903"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43294,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42903\/revisions\/43294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}