{"id":11,"date":"2005-01-30T02:17:29","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T06:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2005\/01\/30\/life-imitating-art-or-at-least-the-c"},"modified":"2005-01-30T02:17:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-30T06:17:29","slug":"life-imitating-art-or-at-least-the-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2005\/01\/life-imitating-art-or-at-least-the-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Life imitating art, or at least the comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a298'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Rachel objected to the scatology of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.com\/comics\/arlonjanis\/archive\/arlonjanis-20050124.html\">Arlo &amp; Janis<\/a>,<br \/>\nwhich (to its credit) is one of the most adult comic strips in<br \/>\nnewspapers today. Despite ample warning from Janis, while I was away in<br \/>\nTexas Rachel did indeed proceed to flush twice&#8230; with predictable<br \/>\nresults.<\/p>\n<p><i>Addendum from 1\/31\/05:<\/i> Jimmy Johnson wrote back to an email I sent him on this topic:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gene,<\/p>\n<p>I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t know why it seems to make perfect sense to flush a toilet AGAIN<br \/>\nwhen it obviously isn&#8217;t draining, but it does. Maybe it indicates an<br \/>\noptimist, if not too bright an optimist.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the message,<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Johnson <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Rachel objected to the scatology of Arlo &amp; Janis, which (to its credit) is one of the most adult comic strips in newspapers today. Despite ample warning from Janis, while I was away in Texas Rachel did indeed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2005\/01\/life-imitating-art-or-at-least-the-comics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-strips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}