{"id":222,"date":"2009-01-09T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/goodbye-2008\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:32:12","slug":"goodbye-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye 2008&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"GRBJ0688.gif\" alt=\"GRBJ0688.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/images\/grbj\/GRBJ0688.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Originally published in the <em>Grand Rapids Business Journal<\/em>, December 29, 2008<\/p>\n<p>I tried not to do this comic. But it was Christmas week, and my brain wasn&#8217;t forthcoming with anything better. So I settled for the ol&#8217; &#8220;year in review&#8221; default. By the time it was published I was sick, sick, sick of all the lists and lookings back\u00a0that get passed off in late December as interesting. Frankly, I was a bit embarrassed with this effort. Reading it now &#8212; nine days into the New Year &#8212; it seems a little bit fresher. And it does have a monster. We all know from Sesame Street that there&#8217;s nothing cooler than a monster&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the Grand Rapids Business Journal, December 29, 2008 I tried not to do this comic. But it was Christmas week, and my brain wasn&#8217;t forthcoming with anything better. So I settled for the ol&#8217; &#8220;year in review&#8221; default. By the time it was published I was sick, sick, sick of all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-rapids-business-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}