{"id":256,"date":"2008-07-01T20:15:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2008-07-01T20:20:25","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T19:20:25","slug":"pi-in-the-comix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/01\/pi-in-the-comix\/","title":{"rendered":"P.I. in the comix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you didn&#8217;t miss <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/fun\/judgeparker.asp\">the last few weeks of <em>Judge Parker<\/em><\/a> in the funny papers. If you did read them, you must have thought, immediately: &#8220;That sounds like the meta-plot of the Bugle P.I.!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/i080701judgeparker.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Judge Parker from Comics Curmudgeon\" width=\"500\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-257\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/i080701judgeparker.jpg 525w, http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/apps\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/i080701judgeparker-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You&#8217;re right!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not widely known that the stories in <em>Judge Parker<\/em> are conceived by a syndicate of retired stonemasons in County Wicklow. Their ideas are sent to the man who actually fills in details, draws, and signs each comic strip. Well, one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homer_the_Great\">masons<\/a> (who will remain nameless) is a devoted follower of the Bugle Blog. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/joshreads.com\/?p=1616\">Uncle Lumpy<\/a> at Comics Curmudgeon, <a href=\"http:\/\/joshreads.com\/?p=1618\">who directed our attention to the story<\/a>. Thanks to French postmodernism for the intellectual prestige of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metafiction\">metafiction<\/a>, which is so abused in this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you didn&#8217;t miss the last few weeks of Judge Parker in the funny papers. If you did read them, you must have thought, immediately: &#8220;That sounds like the meta-plot of the Bugle P.I.!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[92,93,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}