{"id":1825,"date":"2013-03-03T18:33:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T18:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2013-03-03T18:34:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T18:34:28","slug":"house-to-astonish-the-things-it-wasnt-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"House to Astonish &#8211; The Alternate Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who heard me talk about it a few episodes back or seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsbeat.com\/interview-podcaster-al-kennedy-from-house-to-astonish\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with me<\/a> that went up on the Beat a little while back might remember that I recently discovered the scrap of paper on which I&#8217;d written the various names which I&#8217;d come up with for the podcast back before we launched.<\/p>\n<p>Having made that list, Paul highlighted a half-dozen or so that he liked best, and we then picked one of those for the name of the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>We figured it might be fun to let you see the full list &#8211; we meant to put it up for the hundredth but with everything else that was going on in that episode we totally forgot. So here it is! The ones in italics were the final six, with House to Astonish (obv) being the winner.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Men Without Fear<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>House to Astonish<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Secondary Mutation<\/li>\n<li>Because You Demanded It<\/li>\n<li>Heroes for the &#8217;90s<\/li>\n<li>Words and Pictures<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Variant Edition<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>[NB: we didn&#8217;t realise at the time that this was already the name of a podcast]<\/li>\n<li>The Team-Up You Demanded<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Graphic Novelty<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Motion Picture Funnies Weekly<\/li>\n<li>The Fill-In Artists<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Direct Edition<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In This Issue&#8230; Someone Dies!<\/li>\n<li>Secret Origin<\/li>\n<li>Prestige Format<\/li>\n<li>Four Panels<\/li>\n<li>Digest Readers<\/li>\n<li>Superman&#8217;s Pals Paul and Al<\/li>\n<li>Squarebound<\/li>\n<li>Deadly Hands of Comics<\/li>\n<li>World&#8217;s Fannest<\/li>\n<li>The Panel Show<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Our Comics At War<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Shed of Ideas<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, Across Town<\/li>\n<li>Border Skirmishes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who heard me talk about it a few episodes back or seen the interview with me that went up on the Beat a little while back might remember that I recently discovered the scrap of paper on which I&#8217;d written the various names which I&#8217;d come up with for the podcast back before we [&hellip;]<\/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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}