{"id":1074,"date":"2007-05-29T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2007-05-29T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-29T19:10:00","slug":"ripped-from-the-funny-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1074","title":{"rendered":"Ripped From The Funny Pages&#8230;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have my set of comic strips that I read religiously. Get Fuzzy, &#038; Pearls Before Swine are my top two, and then I pretty much hit the rest of them, reading the ones I like, scanning quickly to avoid even making eye contact with the one strip that will certainly follow me straight to hell where I&#8217;ll be forced to proofread and catalog the entire collection: Family Circus. Less dangerous, but still quite uninteresting, I don&#8217;t read the soapy strips &#8211; Brenda Starr, Mark Trail, and I&#8217;m not much for the same joke over and over, which I deem to be Beetle Bailey or Wizard of Id. I read Dilbert, and it doesn&#8217;t usually make me laugh, laugh genuinely, not in that wincing OMG my LIFE! sorta way &#8211; or at least not the way Bucky or Satchel or Pig &#038; Rat do &#8211; except then you get one that reminds you of universal truths in the working world, and I give you today&#8217;s as proof:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_FtpS7UUhDjk\/Rlx7z6crnWI\/AAAAAAAAACY\/5bXawyt3K5I\/s1600-h\/dilbertoday.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_FtpS7UUhDjk\/Rlx7z6crnWI\/AAAAAAAAACY\/5bXawyt3K5I\/s400\/dilbertoday.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070063412305436002\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Tuesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have my set of comic strips that I read religiously. Get Fuzzy, &#038; Pearls Before Swine are my top two, and then I pretty much hit the rest of them, reading the ones I like, scanning quickly to avoid even making eye contact with the one strip that will certainly follow me straight to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}