{"id":3531,"date":"2009-12-10T23:54:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T05:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=3531"},"modified":"2009-12-10T23:54:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T05:54:28","slug":"kicking-a-guy-when-hes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=3531","title":{"rendered":"Kicking a guy when he&#8217;s down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>and pinned under a station wagon.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not (necessarily) making fun of poor Rusty, only that his current predicament has him being rather a captive audience for japes made at his expense.<\/p>\n<p>A number of folks over at The Comics Curmudgeon have speculated that Rusty&#8217;s been exposed to so much peril in his short life that there might be a whole bunch of Rustys waiting in the wings (or, as was so well put in the old TV series <em>Dinosaurs<\/em>, &#8220;Looks like we&#8217;re going to need another Timmy.&#8221;).\u00a0 That might be the case, since what kind of &#8220;Doc&#8221; is Cherry&#8217;s dad, anyway?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3533\" title=\"new-mt-22\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/new-mt-22.jpg\" alt=\"new-mt-22\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/new-mt-22.jpg 500w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/new-mt-22-250x155.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the dilemma of the Jumble puzzle not making into several publications on 10 December.\u00a0 Not to worry, though:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3534\" title=\"new-jumble\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/new-jumble.jpg\" alt=\"new-jumble\" width=\"360\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/new-jumble.jpg 360w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/new-jumble-250x246.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and pinned under a station wagon. No, I&#8217;m not (necessarily) making fun of poor Rusty, only that his current predicament has him being rather a captive audience for japes made at his expense. A number of folks over at The Comics Curmudgeon have speculated that Rusty&#8217;s been exposed to so much peril in his short [&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":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics","category-mark-trail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531","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=3531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3531\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}