{"id":231,"date":"2006-08-18T10:52:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T14:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2006\/08\/18\/pearls-before-swine-passive-aggressi"},"modified":"2006-08-18T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T14:52:37","slug":"pearls-before-swine-passive-aggressive-nah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2006\/08\/pearls-before-swine-passive-aggressive-nah\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pearls Before Swine&#8221; passive aggressive? Nah&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/files\/2006\/08\/Pearls_Before_Swine.764.g.gif\" alt=\"And remember... no telling Mommy I shot my probation officer\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think any other mainstream comic strip artist goes after his peers (if you can call them that) like Sebastian Pastis. Then again, satirizing Family Circus is like shooting babies in a barrel. Still, there&#8217;s something ballsy about doing it while sharing the same page, if not the same syndicate. Earlier in the year Get Fuzzy <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/19\/get-fuzzy-gets-into-the-pearls-before-swine\/\">appropriated his strip<\/a> for a week of goofing off, but that was more a peer-to-peer ribbing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this panel seems like comic voodoo:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/files\/2006\/08\/Pearls_Before_Swine.642.g.gif\" alt=\"PBS-dagwood\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think any other mainstream comic strip artist goes after his peers (if you can call them that) like Sebastian Pastis. Then again, satirizing Family Circus is like shooting babies in a barrel. Still, there&#8217;s something ballsy about doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2006\/08\/pearls-before-swine-passive-aggressive-nah\/\">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-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}