{"id":5775,"date":"2012-03-07T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T01:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2012-03-07T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T01:25:12","slug":"berke-breathed-occupied-bloom-county-in-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/07\/berke-breathed-occupied-bloom-county-in-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Berke Breathed occupied Bloom County in 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love <em>Bloom County<\/em>, but there was only one installment of the strip that ever moved me  to cut it out of my Sunday paper and stash it away. Looking at it now, it seems even more relevant today than it did when it ran on February 26, 1989.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll see, Berke Breathed knew all about the 99% long before the term was invented.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/BloomCounty02261989.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/BloomCounty02261989-300x147.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BloomCounty02261989\" width=\"300\" height=\"147\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/BloomCounty02261989-300x147.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/BloomCounty02261989-1024x503.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I  sure wish Breathed was back doing comics. We could use his voice again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Bloom County, but there was only one installment of the strip that ever moved me to cut it out of my Sunday paper and stash it away. Looking at it now, it seems even more relevant today than it did when it ran on February 26, 1989. As you&#8217;ll see, Berke Breathed knew [&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":[181,18],"class_list":["post-5775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bloom-county","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775","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=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}