{"id":2125,"date":"2007-04-08T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2007-04-08T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T20:58:00","slug":"timing-is-everything-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Timing Is Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070408\/NEWS01\/70408001\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>, Johnny Hart, the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creators.com\/comics\/bc.html?comicname=bc\" target=\"_blank\">B.C.<\/a> and co-creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creators.com\/comics\/wizard-of-id.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wizard of Id<\/a>, has died at the age of 76. I used to read both many years ago, but as Hart \u201cfound Jesus\u201d, the strips (especially B.C.) had taken an evangelical slant that made them unfunny to me. Still, I find the timing of his death quite interesting, coming the day before Easter. Of course, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.com\/creators\/bc\/archive\/images\/bc2007040261838.gif\" target=\"_blank\">strip published today<\/a> had quite the Easter slant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, Johnny Hart, the creator of B.C. and co-creator of The Wizard of Id, has died at the age of 76. I used to read both many years ago, but as Hart \u201cfound Jesus\u201d, the strips (especially B.C.) had taken an evangelical slant that made them unfunny to me. Still, I find the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2125\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,1],"tags":[282],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-lj-xfer","tag-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}