{"id":2186,"date":"2007-04-10T08:06:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/04\/10\/johnny-hart-ri-something\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T08:06:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:06:41","slug":"johnny-hart-ri-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/04\/10\/johnny-hart-ri-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Hart &#8230; ri -something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pondering how to eulogize Johnny Hart, cartoonist behind the fundamentalist Christian caveman comic strip &#8220;BC&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a bit of a cliche to say that the comic strip, after Johnny Hart found Jesus, did not make any goddamned sense by its very goddamned name &#8220;BC&#8221; &#8212; or &#8220;Before Christ&#8221; (later altered to the more ecumenical &#8220;Before the Common Era), but perhaps that is the very idea: Christ is everywhere, even in a mythical time &#8212; I guess roughly 6,000 years ago? &#8212; before he was conceived.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/bcslasteaster.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That was the final Easter edition of BC that Johnny Hart churned out.\u00c2\u00a0 Pound your head and just move on to &#8220;Pearls Before Swine&#8221; and &#8220;Get Fuzzy&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 If we need something as heavy-handed, than we can go to Doonsebury&#8217;s latest jab at Bush, which even if you&#8217;re a rock-ribbed Republican has the advantage of not falling into strange esoterica.\u00c2\u00a0 (Is this BC strip in the same genre as the Da Vinci Code?)<br \/>\nIn previous years, his Easter strip has gone into the territory of offering up what was viewed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapingmaw.com\/60295\/\">anti-semitic garbage theology<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Which is more interesting and scrutible than this one.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose we will never know what Johnny Hart would have churned out next year, as he delved deeper and deeper into his biblical studies, into his own mind-field of Christian cavemen and parochial education for Ants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pondering how to eulogize Johnny Hart, cartoonist behind the fundamentalist Christian caveman comic strip &#8220;BC&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a bit of a cliche to say that the comic strip, after Johnny Hart found Jesus, did not make any goddamned sense by its very goddamned name &#8220;BC&#8221; &#8212; or &#8220;Before Christ&#8221; (later altered to the [&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-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}