{"id":359,"date":"2013-09-23T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tellest.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2014-03-31T11:27:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:27:50","slug":"the-crew-the-sidekick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/the-crew-the-sidekick\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crew &#8211; The Sidekick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met Kevin Gallagher in elementary school, and we\u2019ve been harassing each other ever since.\u00a0 We started out as enemies, but we evolved into acquaintances, and eventually became friends.\u00a0 When I began writing the Tellest saga, Kevin was interested right away.\u00a0 After I had finished writing the first story, we began floating the idea of him continuing with one of the characters.\u00a0 At one point, he even had a rough draft written, but it kind of kicked around in development hell for quite a while.\u00a0 This was way back in the days of <em>the unspoken novel<\/em>.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 We don\u2019t speak of it. \u00a0Over time, he&#8217;s attempted on several occasions to try and get some original Tellest content out there, but it hasn&#8217;t happened&#8230; yet.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I like to think of Kevin as a sort of modular consultant.\u00a0 He\u2019s the first person I typically go to when I have an idea that I want to run with.\u00a0 When it comes to Steel Tip, and his past, I value Kevin\u2019s opinion most of all.<\/p>\n<p>When he\u2019s not working on Tellest related material, or spending quality time with his girlfriend and son (aka <i>Family Adventure Time<\/i>), Kevin is leisurely pursuing other interesting ventures.\u00a0 He\u2019s headed a variety of different podcasts, including The Zombcast, OUaT and Happy Hour.\u00a0 He\u2019s also tried his own hand at writing, dipping into several different projects, including novels of his own, movie scripts and a web series.\u00a0 A self-professed lover of Kevin Smith, comic books, and The Batman (I\u2019m sure he would cuddle with either if given the option, and probably has cuddled with his comics), he\u2019s got just the right amount of nerdy to press Tellest forward in interesting ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Kevin Gallagher in elementary school, and we\u2019ve been harassing each other ever since.\u00a0 We started out as enemies, but we evolved into acquaintances, and eventually became friends.\u00a0 When I began writing the Tellest saga, Kevin was interested right away.\u00a0 After I had finished writing the first story, we began floating the idea of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[57,351],"tags":[81,107,106,105,104],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/New-Image-2.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1UVey-5N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tellest.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}