{"id":780,"date":"2004-06-12T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-12T08:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=780"},"modified":"2004-06-12T08:38:55","modified_gmt":"2004-06-12T08:38:55","slug":"why-garfield-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/780","title":{"rendered":"Why <i>Garfield<\/i> sucks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.  When I was younger I thought that <i>Garfield<\/i> was really funny, but in its later years (like now) had somehow started to suck.  Now, in a piece over at <i>Slate<\/i> called <a title=\"Garfield - Why we hate the Mouse but not the cartoon copycat. By Chris Suellentrop\" href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2102299\/\">Garfield &#8211; Why we hate the Mouse but not the cartoon copycat<\/A>, we learn that not only has the strip <i>always<\/i> sucked, but that it was <i>designed<\/i> to suck.  After reading the article, I feel kind of betrayed.<br \/>\nWhere&#8217;s Charles Schulz when you need him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. When I was younger I thought that Garfield was really funny, but in its later years (like now) had somehow started to suck. Now, in a piece over at Slate called Garfield &#8211; Why we hate the Mouse but not the cartoon copycat, we learn that not only has the strip always sucked, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-cA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}