{"id":142,"date":"2006-03-14T00:55:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T04:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=142"},"modified":"2006-03-14T00:55:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T04:55:28","slug":"happy-birthday-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/happy-birthday-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert&#8217;s <em>The Colbert Report<\/em> marked Al Jaffee&#8217;s 85th birthday today. I tried to find online video of the bit, which was funny (it may be on Comedy Central, but I can&#8217;t tell: Its videos won&#8217;t work on a Mac). Suffice it to day that Colbert waxed eloquent about the Mad Fold-In, then brought out a cake divided into three&#8230;and if you&#8217;ve ever read a Fold-In, you can pretty much fill in the gag from there.<\/p>\n<p>(Am I the only one out there who had many, many memories of reading Jaffee&#8217;s stuff when I was a kid&#8230;but absolutely none of actually being amused by it? It was more transfixing than risible.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert&#8217;s The Colbert Report marked Al Jaffee&#8217;s 85th birthday today. I tried to find online video of the bit, which was funny (it may be on Comedy Central, but I can&#8217;t tell: Its videos won&#8217;t work on a Mac). Suffice it to day that Colbert waxed eloquent about the Mad Fold-In, then brought out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/14\/happy-birthday-al\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday, Al&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}