{"id":254,"date":"2016-10-29T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/29\/cartoonish-aspirations\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T15:36:00","slug":"cartoonish-aspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/29\/cartoonish-aspirations\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoonish Aspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When I was a boy I used to need to read the funny-papers.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;d laugh at Chuck; puzzle over Doonesbury, though Cathy was cute, Garfield needed to lay off lasagna, or thought Family Circus was far fetched. Most off the characters were my friends and I got to see them on the daily.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Several times I&#8217;d ponder about the talents behind the panels. How could people keep on coming up with quirky ideas and silly observations on a daily basis and get them on the page so often? They would have to be super smart, observant and obviously cool. I wanted to be just like them. Sadly I can&#8217;t draw and so my wish never came through but I still read the funnies when I can and still chuckle anytime Marmaduke eats something he knows he shouldn&#8217;t have.<\/div>\n<div><o:p><\/o:p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a boy I used to need to read the funny-papers.&nbsp; I&#8217;d laugh at Chuck; puzzle over Doonesbury, though Cathy was cute, Garfield needed to lay off lasagna, or thought Family Circus was far fetched. Most off the characters were my friends and I got to see them on the daily.&nbsp; Several times &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/29\/cartoonish-aspirations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cartoonish Aspirations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[790,125,786,787,788,411,483,6,785,789],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hugotorres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}