{"id":14840,"date":"2015-08-17T17:53:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T00:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14840"},"modified":"2015-08-17T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T00:53:28","slug":"bloom-county-version-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/08\/17\/bloom-county-version-4\/","title":{"rendered":"bloom county , version 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no strong opinion either way on the latest &#8220;Berke Breathed posting the strips to his facebook daily&#8221; Bloom County&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not?<\/p>\n<p>But I am struck by the premise of the debuts.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/berkeleybreathed\/photos\/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769\/1005862456111174\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Opus wakes up in the year 2015 after a long hiatus, throws out a bunch of contemporary then and now allusions<\/a>&#8230; and ha ha ha, Donald Trump&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The thing is&#8230; the strip didn&#8217;t quite go away.\u00c2\u00a0 It resurfaced immediately on Sundays as Outland.\u00c2\u00a0 Then a decade later as Opus.\u00c2\u00a0 And the thing is, this premise (or Opus trying to slam the resurgent Trump and Michael Jackson, etc into the anxiety closet)&#8230; already thrown in the Sunday Opus strip last decade&#8230; Opus standing there at the end asking &#8220;What?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; Why not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no strong opinion either way on the latest &#8220;Berke Breathed posting the strips to his facebook daily&#8221; Bloom County&#8230; Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not? But I am struck by the premise of the debuts.\u00c2\u00a0 Opus wakes up in the year 2015 after a long hiatus, throws out a bunch of contemporary then and now allusions&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14841,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14840\/revisions\/14841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}