{"id":62,"date":"2011-09-02T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2011-09-02T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T21:13:17","slug":"second-verse-same-as-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/second-verse-same-as-the-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Second verse, same as the first&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moonbaseearth.com\/images\/MBE002.svg\" alt=\"comic strip\" \/><br \/>\nI miss Calvin and Hobbes.  It was a brilliant look into a child&#8217;s imagination that has had no equal. I don&#8217;t claim to be anywhere near as talented a writer as Bill Watterson, nor as talented an artist as someone sneezing onto your screen. (Obviously.  Snort some tri-colored pepper and lean close&#8211;you&#8217;ll make better art yourself!)  Yet, the idea of a child (and not even a human one, at that) in a totally different environment amuses me.  So, I&#8217;m just going to have fun with that for awhile. <\/p>\n<p>Still working on the overall look of the characters. And no, the dialogue will not always be this bad. I&#8217;m trying to get the feel of working with the tools, so a lot of this stuff is just placeholder. <\/p>\n<p>Hey, the original Dilbert drawings were pretty bad, too, but Scott Adams is a zillionaire now.  Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I miss Calvin and Hobbes. It was a brilliant look into a child&#8217;s imagination that has had no equal. I don&#8217;t claim to be anywhere near as talented a writer as Bill Watterson, nor as talented an artist as someone &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/02\/second-verse-same-as-the-first\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[20,6,28],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic-strip-2","tag-comic-strip","tag-moonbaseearth","tag-rocky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LVL7-10","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moonbaseearth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}