{"id":233,"date":"2006-08-24T12:07:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2006\/08\/24\/what-happens-when-a-stateless-comic-"},"modified":"2006-08-24T12:12:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T16:12:16","slug":"what-happens-when-a-stateless-comic-wraps-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2006\/08\/what-happens-when-a-stateless-comic-wraps-around\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when a stateless comic wraps around?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/files\/2006\/08\/Foxtrot-411-g.gif\" alt=\"Fox Retrotting\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As <em>Pearls Before Swine<\/em> was pointing out last week, most comic strips exist in a Nether-Nether Land where Billy never gets old and Charlie Brown never kicks the football (even if Sparky kicks the bucket). This creates a bizarre situation whenever they attempt to bring up issues like growing up, like every back-to-school season. It seems like Paige has been freaking out about becoming a high school freshman&#8230; for 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>(Forgive the geeky title)<\/p>\n<p>Update: fascinating, Wikipedia actually <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FoxTrot#Passage_of_time\">addresses this topic&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Pearls Before Swine was pointing out last week, most comic strips exist in a Nether-Nether Land where Billy never gets old and Charlie Brown never kicks the football (even if Sparky kicks the bucket). This creates a bizarre situation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2006\/08\/what-happens-when-a-stateless-comic-wraps-around\/\">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-233","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\/233","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=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}