{"id":12458,"date":"2020-06-08T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=12458"},"modified":"2020-06-09T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T23:09:25","slug":"theres-always-got-to-be-a-smart-alec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=12458","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s always got to be a smart alec&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Someone asked why Le Chat Bleu (Les Moore&#8217;s nemesis) hadn&#8217;t made an appearance in the mystery car; someone else speculated that the feline was spending time over at Crankshaft&#8217;s strip, where Old Lillian continues to launch her writing career.  Maybe so, but considering Batuiuk writes for both <em>Funky Winkerbean <\/em>and <em>Crankshaft <\/em>(or at least <s>foundered<\/s> founded both strips), there isn&#8217;t much of a stretch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CS-le-chat-bleu-1024x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CS-le-chat-bleu-1024x278.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CS-le-chat-bleu-250x68.jpg 250w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CS-le-chat-bleu-768x209.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CS-le-chat-bleu-1536x417.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/CS-le-chat-bleu.jpg 1950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I will admit that when I first thought of mashing this, I was going to change the title of her next book to &#8220;Murder at the Remainder Table,&#8221; but I forgot&#8230;which ties in with Lillian&#8217;s literary career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to make Le Chat Bleu happy, I still may do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone asked why Le Chat Bleu (Les Moore&#8217;s nemesis) hadn&#8217;t made an appearance in the mystery car; someone else speculated that the feline was spending time over at Crankshaft&#8217;s strip, where Old Lillian continues to launch her writing career. Maybe so, but considering Batuiuk writes for both Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft (or at least foundered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12461,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions\/12461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}