{"id":335,"date":"2007-08-18T23:43:33","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T06:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/blondie-gets-a-lift\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T23:43:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T06:43:33","slug":"blondie-gets-a-lift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/blondie-gets-a-lift\/","title":{"rendered":"Blondie Gets a Lift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say, it&#8217;s time for a Sideways Comic Strip(tm). Return with us now to less than four months after <em>Blondie<\/em>&#8216;s debut, when the Bumsteads were not yet the Bumsteads (well, Dagwood was one, but Blondie wasn&#8217;t), Dagwood had a blue-collar job working for his father, and the whole thing was better drawn, funnier, and generally more lively and charming than it would later become. And as far as I know, it was actually drawn by Chic Young.<\/p>\n<p>Please turn your head 90 degrees to the right and enjoy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/blondiejob.jpg' alt='blondiejob.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say, it&#8217;s time for a Sideways Comic Strip(tm). Return with us now to less than four months after Blondie&#8216;s debut, when the Bumsteads were not yet the Bumsteads (well, Dagwood was one, but Blondie wasn&#8217;t), Dagwood had a blue-collar job working for his father, and the whole thing was better drawn, funnier, and generally more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/18\/blondie-gets-a-lift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blondie Gets a Lift&#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":[124,126,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blondie","category-chic-young","category-dagwood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}