{"id":1533,"date":"2008-10-18T20:58:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T00:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2008-10-18T20:59:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T00:59:37","slug":"1015saturday-night-opus-mad-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/18\/1015saturday-night-opus-mad-world\/","title":{"rendered":"10:15\/Saturday Night: Opus&#8217; Mad World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two things go perfectly together, tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 First, this interview with Berkeley Breathed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/feature\/2008\/10\/18\/opus\/index.html\">on bringing Opus to an end<\/a> (killing him?!):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Breathed says it&#8217;s the anger that led him to close the book on &#8220;Opus,&#8221; that the increasingly nasty political climate has made it too difficult to keep his strip from drifting into darkness. Breathed has described his work as a hybrid of &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; creator Charles Schulz&#8217;s gentle humor and Michael Moore&#8217;s crusading social justice. Perhaps losing touch with his inner Charlie Brown, Breathed has said that &#8220;a mad penguin, like a mad cartoonist, isn&#8217;t very lovable,&#8221; and wants Opus to take his final bow before bitterness changes him forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yes, it&#8217;s a repeat, but apt:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g0G9vDKcdLg[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things go perfectly together, tonight.\u00c2\u00a0 First, this interview with Berkeley Breathed, on bringing Opus to an end (killing him?!): Breathed says it&#8217;s the anger that led him to close the book on &#8220;Opus,&#8221; that the increasingly nasty political climate has made it too difficult to keep his strip from drifting into darkness. Breathed has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}