{"id":1864,"date":"2009-12-28T15:15:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-28T15:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2009-12-28T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-28T15:15:34","slug":"monday_afternoon_silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/28\/monday_afternoon_silly\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Afternoon Silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most American boys growing up in the 1970s, I was a regular reader of <i>Mad<\/i> magazine, and one of my favorite segments of that august publication was the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spy_vs._Spy\">Spy Vs. Spy<\/a>&#8221; cartoons that appeared in every issue. I loved SvS so much that I recall I even tried drawing a few of my own on the backs of brown paper grocery sacks. (They were neither funny nor particularly well drawn, thus ending my nascent interest in becoming a cartoonist.) This little adventure of the familiar black-and-white anti-heroes, which throws in a couple of beloved movie characters for good measure, cracked me up:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/spy-vs-spy-vs-alien-vs-predator.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/samuraifrog.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/spy-vs-spy-vs-alien-vs-predator.html\">Via<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most American boys growing up in the 1970s, I was a regular reader of Mad magazine, and one of my favorite segments of that august publication was the &#8220;Spy Vs. Spy&#8221; cartoons that appeared in every issue. I loved SvS so much that I recall I even tried drawing a few of my own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}