{"id":7933,"date":"2012-08-07T10:25:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2012-08-07T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T16:36:27","slug":"7933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=7933","title":{"rendered":"But is it art?  Why, yes.  Yes, it is."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hallmarks of BMcE&#8217;s cartooning style is drawing women (and a number of men, like Amos, who might be a woman) with very non-discernible chins.\u00a0 So, after all these years of seeing Edda and other Burber women without much of a jaw, I really <strong><em>did<\/em><\/strong> think the  first depiction of Edda in the 7 August <em>9 Chickweed Lane<\/em> strip was a wardrobe malfunction, not a glimpse of her  jaw (<em>gasp!<\/em>) and tip of her nose.\u00a0 Granted, it was a little subtle for the artist, but I really did believe that.<\/p>\n<p>(Fun Fact of the day:\u00a0 There are a few very primitive fish with no jaws  that still survive.\u00a0 Fancy-pants people refer to them as agnathids, but  reg&#8217;lar folks just call them things like &#8220;lamprey&#8221; and &#8220;hagfish.&#8221;\u00a0 I  wonder if fancy-pants also try to link the etymology of the name <em>Edda<\/em> to the word <em>agnatha<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>And since she&#8217;s being booted out of the ballet company, maybe it&#8217;s just best to throw bouquets.\u00a0 <em>Shine on, you crazy diamond!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/New-9CL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7934\" title=\"New 9CL\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/New-9CL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hallmarks of BMcE&#8217;s cartooning style is drawing women (and a number of men, like Amos, who might be a woman) with very non-discernible chins.\u00a0 So, after all these years of seeing Edda and other Burber women without much of a jaw, I really did think the first depiction of Edda in the [&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":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-chickweed-lane"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933","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=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7937,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions\/7937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}