{"id":2579,"date":"2009-06-16T14:12:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2009-06-16T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T20:14:19","slug":"dont-quit-your-day-job-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t quit your day job, Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Comics Curmudgeon&#8217;s readers, chica, linked to several PSA comic books that were published by the government or some educational or do-good agencies in the 1960s, in the attempt to make <del datetime=\"2009-06-16T20:03:18+00:00\">excruciatingly-boring topics<\/del> learning FUN!<\/p>\n<p>One featured our favorite General Practioner!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-rex-1.jpg\" alt=\"new-rex-1\" title=\"new-rex-1\" width=\"220\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-rex-1.jpg 220w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-rex-1-177x249.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s filled with useful information on prenatal health and nutrition and good stuff like that.  Still, I&#8217;m sure other pamphlets might&#8217;ve been just as educational:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-rex-24.jpg\" alt=\"new-rex-24\" title=\"new-rex-24\" width=\"220\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-rex-24.jpg 220w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-rex-24-177x249.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, what many of these agencies always fail to realize it that people read comic books to be <strong><em>entertained<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; and that means pandering to the lowest common denominator:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-rex-31.jpg\" alt=\"new-rex-31\" title=\"new-rex-31\" width=\"220\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-rex-31.jpg 220w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/new-rex-31-177x249.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, Rex.  You get points for trying to be conscientious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Comics Curmudgeon&#8217;s readers, chica, linked to several PSA comic books that were published by the government or some educational or do-good agencies in the 1960s, in the attempt to make excruciatingly-boring topics learning FUN! One featured our favorite General Practioner! I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s filled with useful information on prenatal health and nutrition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psa","category-rex-morgan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579","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=2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2579\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}