{"id":177451,"date":"2019-09-17T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/17\/i-am-so-stoked-about-this\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T23:55:00","slug":"i-am-so-stoked-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/09\/17\/i-am-so-stoked-about-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am so Stoked about This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/y8Bjz5i.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/y8Bjz5i.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>We now have reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/gary-larsons-the-far-side-cartoon-coming-back\/\">Gary Larson&#8217;s THE FAR SIDE Cartoon may be coming back in some form<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gary Larson said goodbye to fans and the absurdist universe of <i>The Far Side&nbsp;<\/i>with  his final comic on January 1, 1995, and since then the real world has  done everything it can to live up to the inanity of his iconic comic  strip. Unfortunately, the foolishness of 2019 isn\u2019t nearly as enjoyable  as sentient chickens and oversized suburban bugs. Now, the 21st century  might be getting both of those creatures\u2014along with aliens, cavemen,  clever cows, and women with beehive hairdos\u2014because for the first time  in almost two decades, the cartoon\u2019s official webpage has been updated.  And unless this joke is on all of us, <i>The Far Side<\/i> will soon be returning.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">After sitting dormant since 1999, <i>The Far Side<\/i>\u2018s webpage was updated suddenly and without warning (which we first learned about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/13\/the-far-side-web-site-is-updated-with-new-art-and-a-coming-soon-notice\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">at <i>The Daily Cartoonist<\/i><\/a>).  It features a new cartoon of an explorer using a blowtorch to melt some  of the strip\u2019s most iconic characters from a large block of ice. Below  it reads, \u201cUncommon, unreal, and (soon-to-be) unfrozen. A new online era  of <i>The Far Side<\/i> is coming!\u201d Since the cartoon itself is signed  by Larson, it certainly appears he will be returning with all new  comics for the first time in almost 25 years.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the love of God, please make this true. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4UueP1G.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/4UueP1G.png\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have reports that Gary Larson&#8217;s THE FAR SIDE Cartoon may be coming back in some form: Gary Larson said goodbye to fans and the absurdist universe of The Far Side&nbsp;with his final comic on January 1, 1995, and since then the real world has done everything it can to live up to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[388,415,386,385,421],"class_list":["post-177451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-entertainment","tag-humor","tag-media","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}