{"id":5073,"date":"2018-05-18T19:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T02:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2018-05-18T19:26:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T02:26:45","slug":"political-footballs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/political-footballs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Political footballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have long wanted to do a nice long write-up on how well the Lucy-pulls-the-football-away gag has integrated itself into the political discourse; how it is used by legislators and commenters alike. I think there&#8217;s a great piece to be done on that, as it is one way that Peanuts has filled a cultural hole that we didn&#8217;t know we had. But&#8230; well, that sounds like a lot of research.<\/p>\n<p>But there is one way that I can demonstrate just how big a presence it has. Here are five recent political cartoons, all on the exact same topic&#8230; and I&#8217;m willing to bet that none of these cartoonists saw the others&#8217; cartoons before drawing their own. It&#8217;s just that this is so much a standard political cartoon trope, a part of the language. (<em>Mad\u00a0<\/em>editor Bill Morrison, who wrote one of these, tells of having purposely tried to get the cartoon out quickly, before anyone else did the exact same gag.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Bill and several other Facebook folks for pointing me to most of these.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5074\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/North-Korea-Nuclear-Football.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/North-Korea-Nuclear-Football.jpg 800w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/North-Korea-Nuclear-Football-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/North-Korea-Nuclear-Football-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/North-Korea-Nuclear-Football-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have long wanted to do a nice long write-up on how well the Lucy-pulls-the-football-away gag has integrated itself into the political discourse; how it is used by legislators and commenters alike. I think there&#8217;s a great piece to be done on that, as it is one way that Peanuts &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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","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=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}