{"id":753,"date":"2006-12-04T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/753\/"},"modified":"2006-12-04T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-05T01:42:12","slug":"marmaduke-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2006\/12\/04\/marmaduke-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Marmaduke Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, we had <a href=\"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2006\/02\/10\/695\/trackback\/\" title=\"A muted Garfield is a funny Garfield\">non-sucking Garfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.com\/comics\/marmaduke\/\" title=\"How the hell has this strip lasted 52 years?\">another craptastic comic<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Marmaduke: Can he be explained?\">gets some improvement<\/a>.  Not that the explanations can actually make the comic <i>funny<\/i>; that would be impossible.  But they can allow one to gape in astonishment that anyone could possibly think they were amusing or poignant or somehow relevant social commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in February, we had non-sucking Garfield. And now another craptastic comic gets some improvement. Not that the explanations can actually make the comic funny; that would be impossible. But they can allow one to gape in astonishment that anyone could possibly think they were amusing or poignant or somehow relevant social commentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}