{"id":2427,"date":"2013-03-04T09:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2013-03-04T09:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:43:56","slug":"lil-abner-versus-lil-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/lil-abner-versus-lil-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"Li&#8217;l Abner versus Li&#8217;l Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imprint.printmag.com\/comics\/lil-abner-al-capp-monster-cartoonist\/\">This invterview<\/a> about a just-released biography of Li&#8217;l Abner creator Al Capp (and when one says a &#8220;warts and all&#8221; biography of Capp, believe me that &#8220;warts&#8221; is putting it nicely) includes as illustration three Abner Sunday strips from 1968 which I&#8217;d not seen before, in which Capp attempts to put his satirical screws to Schulz and the success of Peanuts. They aren&#8217;t actually funny, and some of the specific criticisms seem more than a mite odd coming from Capp as the interview notes (unrealistic dialog and commercially exploited both figure heavily into Capp&#8217;s own work, as the interview suggests), but I&#8217;d not seen them before and they are of at least curiosity value. (Abner was a very funny strip in its key period, but that had passed well before 1968.)<\/p>\n<p>The biography being promoted is currently 44% off. <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?1608196232\">Order here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This invterview about a just-released biography of Li&#8217;l Abner creator Al Capp (and when one says a &#8220;warts and all&#8221; biography of Capp, believe me that &#8220;warts&#8221; is putting it nicely) includes as illustration three Abner Sunday strips from 1968 which I&#8217;d not seen before, in which Capp attempts to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-now-shipping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}