{"id":182648,"date":"2015-07-13T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/13\/good-news-everyone-4\/"},"modified":"2015-07-13T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T23:15:00","slug":"good-news-everyone-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/07\/13\/good-news-everyone-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News Everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/09zkwEl.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/09zkwEl.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><i>Bloom County<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/article\/berkeley-breathed-returning-to-bloom-county-for-first-time-in-25-years\">returning to the funny papers<\/a>, and I am stoked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">After 25 years, Berkeley Breathed is returning to his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip, &#8220;Bloom County.&#8221; Breathed announced the new incarnation of the politically-minded strip via a post on Facebook that featured him working on a new comic with the words &#8220;Bloom County 2015&#8221; at the top.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Bloom County&#8221; originally ran from December 1980 until 1989, just two years after he won the Pulitzer. The characters, such as Bill the Cat, Opus the Penguin, Hodge-Podge the Rabbit, Milo Bloom, and Cutter John, lived on in the Sunday-only strip &#8220;Outland&#8221; from 1989 to 1995, as well as &#8220;Opus&#8221; from 2003 to 2008. When &#8220;Opus'&#8221; run ended, Breathed said he was stepping away from strips entirely and began focusing on writing children&#8217;s books. At the time, he said the political climate in the country had grown too bitter for him to continue taking a light tone on things, and he wanted to get out before things got too tough.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">However, with the 2016 presidential campaign season heating up, it seems that Breathed has found something funny to talk about again:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/5z9V8xv.png\" \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will miss Jon Stewart during the 2016 campaign, but <i>Bloom County<\/i>&nbsp; coming back takes the sting out, at least a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloom County is returning to the funny papers, and I am stoked: After 25 years, Berkeley Breathed is returning to his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip, &#8220;Bloom County.&#8221; Breathed announced the new incarnation of the politically-minded strip via a post on Facebook that featured him working on a new comic with the words &#8220;Bloom County 2015&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,1136,1002,1011],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-breaking-news","category-good-writing","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182648"}],"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=182648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}