{"id":4614,"date":"2010-07-28T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2010-07-29T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:44:00","slug":"i-keep-telling-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=4614","title":{"rendered":"I keep telling myself&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Read for <em><strong>comprehension<\/strong><\/em>, not for <em>speed<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#8217;t explain why I read <em>Between Friends<\/em> &#8212; fairly unlikely characters in sort of a <em>Foob South of the (Canadian) Border<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But this is what I honestly saw when I read the original.\u00a0 Then again, I&#8217;m not much in the latest jargon (&#8220;man-scaping&#8221; makes me cringe, though), and I really didn&#8217;t understand what the accompanying illustration had to do with anything:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4615\" title=\"bf-2\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bf-2.jpg\" alt=\"bf-2\" width=\"530\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bf-2.jpg 530w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bf-2-250x165.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All rightie! Now it all makes perfect sense!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4632\" title=\"not-bf-3\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/not-bf-3.jpg\" alt=\"not-bf-3\" width=\"530\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/not-bf-3.jpg 530w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/not-bf-3-250x80.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Read for comprehension, not for speed.&#8221; This doesn&#8217;t explain why I read Between Friends &#8212; fairly unlikely characters in sort of a Foob South of the (Canadian) Border. But this is what I honestly saw when I read the original.\u00a0 Then again, I&#8217;m not much in the latest jargon (&#8220;man-scaping&#8221; makes me cringe, though), and [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4614","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\/4614","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=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}