{"id":264,"date":"2007-09-10T21:24:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T01:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/264"},"modified":"2007-09-10T21:24:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T01:24:22","slug":"the-globe-drops-opus-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/the-globe-drops-opus-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Globe Drops Opus Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time, the Globe declined to run Opus in the Sunday comic pages.\u00c2\u00a0 No explanation.\u00c2\u00a0 No comic.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that through the magic of the internet, we all can see what the Globe was so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/comics\/opus\/2007\/09\/02\/opus\/index.html\">loathe to put on our doorsteps<\/a>..<\/p>\n<p>Admit it.\u00c2\u00a0 You can&#8217;t figure out what the problem is.\u00c2\u00a0 Me either.<\/p>\n<p>Fox has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,294779,00.html\">article<\/a> about the dropped photos. &#8220;<span id=\"intelliTXT\">Lago said she flagged some of the syndicate&#8217;s newspaper clients for two reasons: because of the possibility that the jokes about Islam would be misconstrued and because of the sexual innuendo in the punchline.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Jokes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/comics\/opus\/2007\/08\/19\/opus\/index.html\">Jerry Falwell<\/a> or<a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleybreathed.com\/Images\/fav_strip1_full.jpg \"> Hare Krishnas<\/a> are\u00c2\u00a0 OK, but jokes about Muslims are not?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my post about the <a href=\"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/258\">first dropped comic<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I found out about the second one from <a href=\"http:\/\/squaringtheglobe.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/banned-in-boston-again.html\">Squaring the Globe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time, the Globe declined to run Opus in the Sunday comic pages.\u00c2\u00a0 No explanation.\u00c2\u00a0 No comic.\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that through the magic of the internet, we all can see what the Globe was so loathe to put on our doorsteps.. Admit it.\u00c2\u00a0 You can&#8217;t figure out what the problem is.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}