{"id":3491,"date":"2012-02-24T01:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2012-02-24T02:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T02:00:08","slug":"letters-from-leonardo-1997-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/letters-from-leonardo-1997-october\/","title":{"rendered":"1997-10 &#8211; Letters from Leonardo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings!<\/p>\n<p>As you may have noticed, things have changed quite dramatically for us lately! We&#8217;ve met a wonderful new friend, defeated the Shredder (?!) &#8220;once and for all&#8221; yet\u00a0<strong>again<\/strong>and we&#8217;ve decided to wear different head bands&#8230; to name just three! That doesn&#8217;t even count the Dragon Lord and his evil henchmen attacking us from the realm of Dream, or the vampires or the bounty hunters, or&#8230;. well&#8230; it&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>always<\/strong>\u00a0something new and strange with us!<\/p>\n<p>I must admit that seeing the Shredder again was odd, but he&#8217;s come back from the dead so many times that I&#8217;ve gotten used to it. While Venus seems to think that he will trouble us no more, I believe that he&#8217;ll be back. Sooner or later, he&#8217;ll be back. Anyone who can come back from the dead can accomplish\u00a0<strong>many<\/strong>\u00a0things. Venus is more than a little knowledgable, though, so hopefully she&#8217;s right. She can do things that I thought were impossible, so we shall see!<\/p>\n<p>Venus is totally incredible! She&#8217;s an awesome fighter, an adept mage and\u00a0<strong>incredibly<\/strong>disciplined! She&#8217;s terrific! She&#8217;s already taught me many things that I need to do to improve myself. We are so lucky that she&#8217;s come into our lives! She&#8217;s a fantastic addition to our team! My only regret is that it took so many years before we met her. Master Splinter has his reasons for keeping her a secret, and I will not argue his wisdom&#8230; but I wish Venus had been here a long time ago! At least she&#8217;s here now, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier! She sets a fine example for my brothers and I on how powerful discipline can be. Awesome!<\/p>\n<p>The bandana change came about rather quickly. We&#8217;ve often had different masks that we&#8217;ve worn in the past, just never outside of the sewer. We finally decided that it was time for a change! Doesn&#8217;t go any deeper than that. =)<\/p>\n<p>The new enemies that we&#8217;ve been encountering since Venus arrived are some of the most difficult we&#8217;ve faced. We&#8217;ve been able to handle most of our past foes thanks to Donatello&#8217;s talent with technology, but lately we&#8217;ve been running into supernatural villains. Yet another reason we&#8217;re fortunate to have met Venus, as she is very capable of battling these forces! With her on our team, I don&#8217;t think anything can overpower us&#8230; at least not for long! I think we&#8217;ve got all the bases covered now&#8230; just in time, too!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to run! Venus is going to help me in my meditations! See you soon!<\/p>\n<p><center>Be well!<br \/>\nLeonardo<\/center>This letter was featured on NinjaTurtles.com and written by Dan Berger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings! As you may have noticed, things have changed quite dramatically for us lately! We&#8217;ve met a wonderful new friend, defeated the Shredder (?!) &#8220;once and for all&#8221; yet\u00a0againand we&#8217;ve decided to wear different head bands&#8230; to name just three!&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/letters-from-leonardo-1997-october\/\" class=\"more-link\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,446,88],"tags":[41,346,447],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-letters","category-othercomics","tag-dan-berger","tag-leonardo","tag-letter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3493,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions\/3493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutantooze.org\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}