{"id":309,"date":"2007-07-22T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/more-george-ward-pogo\/"},"modified":"2007-07-22T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T15:24:51","slug":"more-george-ward-pogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/more-george-ward-pogo\/","title":{"rendered":"More George Ward Pogo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Roberts, who knew George Ward, <a href=\"http:\/\/www .harrymccracken.com\/blog \/2007\/07\/15\/george-ward -the-greatest-cartoonist -who-ever-lived\/\">read my post on Walt Kelly&#8217;s assistant<\/a> and sent along something nifty: the front and back of an envelope Ward mailed to him circa 1974:<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/pogoenvelope.jpg' alt='pogoenvelope.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/albertenvelope.jpg' alt='albertenvelope.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that these drawings suggest that George Ward could draw Walt Kelly&#8217;s characters a lot better than most people who weren&#8217;t Walt Kelly&#8230;but not as well or better than Walt himself could. Thanks, Charlie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Roberts, who knew George Ward, read my post on Walt Kelly&#8217;s assistant and sent along something nifty: the front and back of an envelope Ward mailed to him circa 1974: I&#8217;d say that these drawings suggest that George Ward could draw Walt Kelly&#8217;s characters a lot better than most people who weren&#8217;t Walt Kelly&#8230;but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/22\/more-george-ward-pogo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More George Ward Pogo&#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":[85,87,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-george-ward","category-pogo","category-walt-kelly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}