{"id":12469,"date":"2008-02-01T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12469"},"modified":"2014-01-11T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:35:27","slug":"a-lack-of-candorville-at-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/01\/a-lack-of-candorville-at-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A lack of  <i>Candorville<\/i> at the <i>Washington Post<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was revealed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/discussion\/2008\/01\/22\/DI2008012202331.html\" target=\"_blank\">this week&#8217;s online chat with <i>Washington Post<\/i> columnist Gene Weingarten<\/a> that the paper refused to publish the January 19 installment of the comic strip <i>Candorville<\/i>.   <\/p>\n<p>Here it is for those of you in the DC area who had to settle for a replacement that day. (Click to see the strip at a more readable size.)  I have no idea whether any other newspapers took the same action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Candorville.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Candorville-300x94.gif\" alt=\"Candorville\" width=\"300\" height=\"94\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12470\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Participants in the chat took both sides, with a few mentioning that different versions of the joke had been made previously by comedians  Dick Gregory and Dave Chapelle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was revealed in this week&#8217;s online chat with Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten that the paper refused to publish the January 19 installment of the comic strip Candorville. Here it is for those of you in the DC area who had to settle for a replacement that day. (Click to see the strip at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,18],"class_list":["post-12469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-censorship","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12471,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}