{"id":441,"date":"2006-01-08T23:08:29","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T23:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2006-01-08T23:08:29","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T23:08:29","slug":"the_sunday_funnies_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/08\/the_sunday_funnies_1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Funnies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I think I continue reading newspaper comic strips only out of sheer habit. With the exception of the warm-hearted and curiously twisted &#8220;Get Fuzzy,&#8221; most strips currently running today are neither very funny nor terribly insightful, unlike, say, &#8220;Calvin &amp; Hobbes,&#8221; &#8220;Doonesbury&#8221; in its heyday, or the long-defunct but still fondly remembered <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bloom_County\">&#8220;Bloom County.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while, however, I get lucky and am rewarded with a good chuckle. Today, I got two chuckles for my efforts, which I&#8217;ve decided to share with you here. You&#8217;ll find both below the fold, for the convenience of any dial-up readers out there. If you have trouble reading them, click on them to see a larger version&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/brevity20060101046698.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Geek humor.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/brevity20060101046698.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/LUC060108B.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The truth of a humanities major.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/LUC060108B.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(FYI, the second of these strips, &#8220;Lucky Cow,&#8221; is written and drawn by a former Salt Laker named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markpett.com\/\">Mark Pett<\/a>, and it&#8217;s based in a fast-food restaurant. I never had the misfortune to work in one of those places myself, but I can certainly relate to the ease of finding a job when you&#8217;re fresh out of school with an utterly impractical degree&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I think I continue reading newspaper comic strips only out of sheer habit. With the exception of the warm-hearted and curiously twisted &#8220;Get Fuzzy,&#8221; most strips currently running today are neither very funny nor terribly insightful, unlike, say, &#8220;Calvin &amp; Hobbes,&#8221; &#8220;Doonesbury&#8221; in its heyday, or the long-defunct but still fondly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}