{"id":172143670,"date":"2010-06-16T09:41:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T09:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=172143670"},"modified":"2010-06-16T09:41:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T09:41:10","slug":"motel-art-improvement-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=172143670","title":{"rendered":"MOTEL ART IMPROVEMENT SERVICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/images\/solicits\/darkhorse\/201009\/MotelArtImprovementService.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n&#36;19.99<br \/>\nHC, 9&#8243; x 6 3\/4&#8243;<br \/>\nFrom Jason Little, author of the Ignatz Award-winning Shutterbug Follies, comes another exciting \u201cbubblegum noir\u201d graphic novel, originally serialized in the acclaimed webcomic Bee!<br \/>\nEighteen-year-old Bee has finally saved up enough to embark on her long-planned cross-country bicycle trip. However, she doesn\u2019t make it very far before disaster leaves her stranded at a motel. Her hormones surge when she meets a misunderstood young artist on a mission to \u201cupgrade\u201d the banal \u201cartwork\u201d that hangs on the walls of every motel room. Taking a job there as a housekeeper, Bee snoops around in the motel\u2019s dirty laundry and finds herself entangled in a scary drug deal gone dangerously wrong.<br \/>\nFeaturing gorgeous artwork balancing grit with cuteness, Motel Art Improvement Service explores crime, young love, and the purpose of art, in a story that\u2019s equal parts thrilling, funny, and sexy!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=26708\">https:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=26708<\/a>oldId.20100616094110324<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#36;19.99 HC, 9&#8243; x 6 3\/4&#8243; From Jason Little, author of the Ignatz Award-winning Shutterbug Follies, comes another exciting \u201cbubblegum noir\u201d graphic novel, originally serialized in the acclaimed webcomic Bee! Eighteen-year-old Bee has finally saved up enough to embark on her long-planned cross-country bicycle trip. However, she doesn\u2019t make it very far before disaster leaves &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=172143670\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MOTEL ART IMPROVEMENT SERVICE&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172143670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyclists-yellow-pages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172143670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172143670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172143670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172143670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172143670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172143670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}