{"id":225257,"date":"2026-05-12T08:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225257"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:55:03","slug":"why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225257","title":{"rendered":"Why Gene Luen Yang\u2019s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Matter Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang began writing for the comic books. What he\u2019s done with the \u201980s icons is extraordinary&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/books\/a70772145\/gene-luen-yang-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, American Born Chinese author Gene Luen Yang began writing for the comic books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-scaled.jpg",1665,2560,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-195x300.jpg",195,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-768x1181.jpg",640,984,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-666x1024.jpg",640,984,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-999x1536.jpg",999,1536,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-1332x2048.jpg",1332,2048,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-1024x1574.jpg",1024,1574,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225257-why-gene-luen-yangs-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-matter-again-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}