{"id":769,"date":"2007-01-08T23:47:21","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T03:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/08\/an-idea-distilled\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T23:47:21","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T03:47:21","slug":"an-idea-distilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/an-idea-distilled\/","title":{"rendered":"An Idea Distilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best editorial cartoons are the ones that take an entire position, argument, or notion and distill it down to a single image that captures the essence o the longer and more detailed version exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/cartoons\/20061217\/8.html\">this one<\/a>, for example. I&#8217;d say that pretty much captures it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s one of the selections at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/cartoons\/20061217\/\">Time&#8217;s 2006 Cartoons of the Year<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<p>Those ones are pretty good, but I think this one (from last year) is the paradigm case of the perfect editorial cartoon:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/01\/evolution.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" alt=\"Teach Both Theories\" title=\"Teach Both Theories\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I believe that is the most concise deconstruction of the &#8220;teach both theories&#8221; and &#8220;teach the controversy&#8221; argument that I&#8217;ve seen yet.<\/p>\n<p>If I had a higher resolution version of that, I would make myself a t-shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The best editorial cartoons are the ones that take an entire position, argument, or notion and distill it down to a single image that captures the essence o the longer and more detailed version exactly. Take this one, for example. I&#8217;d say that pretty much captures it. That&#8217;s one of the selections at Time&#8217;s 2006 Cartoons of the Year list.&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/08\/an-idea-distilled\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-cp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}