{"id":873,"date":"2007-04-18T19:50:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T23:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/there-was-at-least-one-moment-of-true-genius\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T19:52:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T23:52:37","slug":"there-was-at-least-one-moment-of-true-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/there-was-at-least-one-moment-of-true-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"There was at least one moment of true genius."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/offbeat\/articles\/0416parker-obit0416-ON.html\">Brant Parker has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I take this moment to claim (again) that mixed in with the years of formulaic and unfunny, there was at least one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/13\/no-really-its-funny-i-swear\/\">Wizard of Id strip that was pure comedy gold<\/a>. I know you don&#8217;t believe me, but you&#8217;re all wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me that this is funny for exactly the same reason that the sweet little two-line horror story in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fredric_Brown\">Fredric Brown<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Knock&#8221; is scary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I see that Brant Parker has died. I take this moment to claim (again) that mixed in with the years of formulaic and unfunny, there was at least one Wizard of Id strip that was pure comedy gold. I know you don&#8217;t believe me, but you&#8217;re all wrong. It occurs to me that this is funny for exactly the same&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/18\/there-was-at-least-one-moment-of-true-genius\/\">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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-and-done","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-e5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","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=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}