{"id":12997,"date":"2008-07-04T22:41:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T02:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12997"},"modified":"2017-06-20T08:48:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:48:59","slug":"the-face-of-clarion-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/04\/the-face-of-clarion-79\/","title":{"rendered":"The face of Clarion &#8217;79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, after Bill Shunn posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/shunn\/sets\/72157605607525392\/\" target=\"_blank\">photos from his Clarion class of 1985<\/a> in the wake of Algis Budrys&#8217; death, I bemoaned the fact that&#8212;as far as I know&#8212;no photos exist from my own Clarion year.<\/p>\n<p>Then I remembered that I do have one image that reflects how I looked as a member of the Clarion class of 1979, but it isn&#8217;t a photograph&#8212;it&#8217;s a portrait done of me by my classmate <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/r\/rausch_barb.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Barb Rausch<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BarbRauschClarionDrawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BarbRauschClarionDrawing-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"BarbRauschClarionDrawing\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BarbRauschClarionDrawing-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BarbRauschClarionDrawing.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Clarion, Barb went on to become a well-known comic-book artist, drawing <i>Katy Keene<\/i> for Archie and <i>Barbie<\/i> for Marvel.  Unfortunately, Barb passed away in 2001.  She&#8217;s  the only member of my class to have died &#8230; I think.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did she draw me at Clarion, Barb also drew <i>on<\/i> me, as she painted the fake tattoos I sported when I dressed as a Hell&#8217;s Angel for our &#8217;60s party.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8212;the class of 1985 has photographs, while the class of 1979 has pencil drawings.  I guess this means that if we query the class of 1968, we&#8217;ll discover that all they have to remember their year are carvings on stone tablets!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, after Bill Shunn posted photos from his Clarion class of 1985 in the wake of Algis Budrys&#8217; death, I bemoaned the fact that&#8212;as far as I know&#8212;no photos exist from my own Clarion year. Then I remembered that I do have one image that reflects how I looked as a member of [&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":[150],"class_list":["post-12997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clarion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997","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=12997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23750,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997\/revisions\/23750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}