{"id":13070,"date":"2008-07-21T22:27:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13070"},"modified":"2014-01-22T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T18:41:59","slug":"happy-birthday-garry-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/21\/happy-birthday-garry-trudeau\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Garry Trudeau!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Trudeau, creator of <i>Doonesbury<\/i>, turned 60 today.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think he remembers having drawn the sketch below at a Reuben Awards banquet in 1973 when he was but 25 and I was just a snotty kid with a sketchbook and a pleading voice?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GarryTrudeauSketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GarryTrudeauSketch-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"GarryTrudeauSketch\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GarryTrudeauSketch-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/GarryTrudeauSketch.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nah.<\/p>\n<p>I, on the other hand, remember it very well.  (There should be a word for that, the encounter which one party regards as meaningful and the other finds either meaningless or completely unmemorable.)<\/p>\n<p>In any case, as I type these words, it suddenly leaps out at me&#151;he was only freakin&#8217; 25?  And already helping to topple a president, with a Pulitzer only two years away?  It makes me feel as if I haven&#8217;t done enough to justify my existence today. <\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Garry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, turned 60 today. Do you think he remembers having drawn the sketch below at a Reuben Awards banquet in 1973 when he was but 25 and I was just a snotty kid with a sketchbook and a pleading voice? Nah. I, on the other hand, remember it very well. (There [&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":[151,452],"class_list":["post-13070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthdays","tag-garry-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070","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=13070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13072,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions\/13072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}