{"id":2931,"date":"2005-05-04T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2005-05-04T08:10:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-04T12:10:42","slug":"deconstructing-ziggy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2931","title":{"rendered":"Deconstructing Ziggy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveboink.com\/archive\/ziggy.htm\">This is one of the funniest things<\/a> I have read in a long long looooong time.<\/p>\n<p>It starts like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A while back, Tom Wilson, drawer of the &#8220;Ziggy&#8221; comic strip, was coming to a local bookstore to sign autographs. I was itching to know what made this guy tick. If you&#8217;ve read much &#8220;Ziggy&#8221; at all, you&#8217;ve probably come to the conclusion that its creator is at least a little senile. I drove over to the bookstore and stood in line, not to get a comic strip signed by him, but just to stand there and, just for one second, look him in the eye. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The essay made me laugh out loud.<\/p>\n<p>I love the Internet.  People devote entire posts to deconstructing Ziggy.  This guy is ANGRY about Ziggy.  It&#8217;s so damn funny.  Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the funniest things I have read in a long long looooong time. It starts like this: A while back, Tom Wilson, drawer of the &#8220;Ziggy&#8221; comic strip, was coming to a local bookstore to sign autographs. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}