{"id":6670,"date":"2022-01-03T20:57:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T04:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=6670"},"modified":"2022-01-03T20:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T04:57:10","slug":"its-only-a-wait-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/its-only-a-wait-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Only A&#8230; Wait, What Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I finally obtained an item that I&#8217;d sought for\u00a0 a decade, something that I had once let slip through my hands when it went for three figures at an auction, but hadn&#8217;t seen available since. And now it&#8217;s in my hands&#8230; but I still can&#8217;t tell you what it is. Not really.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GolfingIOAGcover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6671\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GolfingIOAGcover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GolfingIOAGcover.jpg 400w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GolfingIOAGcover-261x300.jpg 261w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, I can describe it. It&#8217;s a simple stapled pamphlet, about 4.25&#8243; wide and 4.75&#8243; tall. Its color front cover bears the title &#8220;GOLFING &#8212; IT&#8217;S ONLY A GAME&#8221; and it is credited as &#8220;BY SCHULZ&#8221;. Past the cover, there are seven pages, each of which has a golfing cartoon from the 1957-1959 syndicated feature &#8220;It&#8217;s Only a Game&#8221;, which was written by Schulz but most of the final art was by Jim Sasseville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GlofingIOAGinterior.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6672\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GlofingIOAGinterior-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GlofingIOAGinterior-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GlofingIOAGinterior-260x160.jpg 260w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GlofingIOAGinterior.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I can&#8217;t tell you is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Who published this<\/li>\n<li>When it was published<\/li>\n<li>Why it was published<\/li>\n<li>How it was distributed (it seems too cheap and thin to be a commercial item, beyond perhaps a vending machine filler, and the one I just got seems in too good condition to have been that)<\/li>\n<li>Who drew the cover (it&#8217;s clearly neither Schulz nor Sasseville)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The pamphlet has no indica, no copyright notice, no clue that I can discern what it&#8217;s purpose was in this world.<\/p>\n<p>You know what it does have? A cousin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bowling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2351\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bowling-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bowling-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/bowling.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This matched pamphlet has all the same lack of information of the golfing one&#8230;. which I want to refer to as &#8220;the other one,&#8221; but all I know is it&#8217;s\u00a0<em>an<\/em> other one. This copy of the bowling booklet I purchased ten years back is the only extant copy I&#8217;ve detected anywhere so far. Given that this is obscure enough that I could only find one, might there be a <em>Tennis &#8212; It&#8217;s Only a Game<\/em>, a <em>Baseball &#8212; It&#8217;s Only a Game<\/em>, even a\u00a0<em>Bridge &#8212; It&#8217;s Only a Game<\/em> that I&#8217;ve just not encountered yet? So far I&#8217;ve not found anyone who could tell me anything useful about these booklets. So all I have is these two items, and a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I finally obtained an item that I&#8217;d sought for\u00a0 a decade, something that I had once let slip through my hands when it went for three figures at an auction, but hadn&#8217;t seen available since. And now it&#8217;s in my hands&#8230; but I still can&#8217;t tell you what it &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6673,"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":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic-finds","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670","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=6670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}