{"id":4059,"date":"2010-04-08T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:53:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T20:53:21","slug":"gulag-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4059","title":{"rendered":"Gulag Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first panel of the 7 April <em>Mary Worth<\/em> was so <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">freakin&#8217; horrifying <\/span>evocative of those intense, stalwart individuals portrayed in old Soviet propaganda posters that both CC&#8217;s Vosh and Calico commented on it.\u00a0 Who am I to say otherwise?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4060\" title=\"new-mw-soviet\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/new-mw-soviet.jpg\" alt=\"new-mw-soviet\" width=\"410\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/new-mw-soviet.jpg 410w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/new-mw-soviet-250x176.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the record, The title of the poster comes from Vosh:\u00a0 <em>Help Destroy the Kulaks and Wreckers!<\/em> Mary&#8217;s words were inspired by Calico&#8217;s words: &#8220;Through the efforts of the glorious Soviet worker, we will secure the five-year plan, Toby!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was all run through Babelfish, so the title might be a call for eating more potatoes, and Mary might be spouting gibberish.\u00a0 And &#8220;Toby,&#8221; the last word in Mary&#8217;s dire pronouncement, comes from typing &#8220;Toby directly into PhotoShop&#8217;s Cyrillic text.\u00a0 (Don&#8217;t give me any grief that it doesn&#8217;t spell Toby or that it spells something else.\u00a0 It gave me fits as how to include Cyrillic script and get something more intelligible &#8212; relatively speaking &#8212; than<em> ??? ?????? ??? ????<\/em>.\u00a0 Yet I persevered, since I&#8217;m well aware that in the Soviet Union, mashups mash <em>you!<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first panel of the 7 April Mary Worth was so freakin&#8217; horrifying evocative of those intense, stalwart individuals portrayed in old Soviet propaganda posters that both CC&#8217;s Vosh and Calico commented on it.\u00a0 Who am I to say otherwise? For the record, The title of the poster comes from Vosh:\u00a0 Help Destroy the Kulaks [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maryworth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","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=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}