{"id":896,"date":"2007-01-26T10:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T17:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2007-01-26T10:51:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T17:51:46","slug":"imitation-is-the-best-form-of-flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"IMITATION IS THE BEST FORM OF FLATTERY . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"image981\" style=\"width: 385px; height: 76px\" height=\"76\" alt=\"thief.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/thief.jpg\" width=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>. . . Barb pointed this out to me.<\/p>\n<p>A month ago I decided to interject a knickname into my cartoons between my first and last name. I&#8217;ve seen other cartoonists do it, and thought it was funny. Since I started doing it, I have noticed a lot of my friends comment on it, and they like the EXTRA laugh. Some of the knicknames are inside jokes, but I try to make them so other people will understand them too.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed that Jason Folkerts has taken up this practice. Though I should be mad about it, Barb does make a good point. Seems ironic, since Jason once told me he doesn&#8217;t pay much attention to my toons.<\/p>\n<p>Ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . Barb pointed this out to me. A month ago I decided to interject a knickname into my cartoons between my first and last name. I&#8217;ve seen other cartoonists do it, and thought it was funny. Since I started doing it, I have noticed a lot of my friends comment on it, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}