{"id":784,"date":"2005-01-06T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=784"},"modified":"2005-01-06T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T19:48:54","slug":"will-eisner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/01\/06\/will-eisner\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Eisner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003144\"><\/a>See, when Will Eisner returned from World War Two to resume his work on <u>The Spirit<\/u>, he found that he was a bit embarrassed by the minstrel racial charicature that was the sidekick &#8212; Ebony.  So he had him go off to get an education, so as to clean the character up a little bit.  In the interim, The Spirit found a new temporary sidekick:<\/p>\n<p>A fat eskimo boy named Blubber.  (?!?!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n  If you ask for a list of cartoonists, a mention from me of Eisner might come across as a bit cursory&#8230; he kind of gets lost in the shuffle in my estimation&#8230; but nonetheless, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/messboard\/ubb\/Forum1\/HTML\/008871.html\">I can&#8217;t take anything away from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, when Will Eisner returned from World War Two to resume his work on The Spirit, he found that he was a bit embarrassed by the minstrel racial charicature that was the sidekick &#8212; Ebony. So he had him go off to get an education, so as to clean the character up a little bit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}