{"id":230,"date":"2009-02-20T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.2gtech.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/20\/look-mom-im-on-cnncom\/"},"modified":"2009-02-20T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T17:04:23","slug":"look-mom-im-on-cnncom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Look, Mom! I&#8217;m on CNN.com&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was working yesterday morning when my cell phone rang around 10:00. I didn\u2019t recognize the area code and debated whether to answer but did using my best \u201care you a telemarketer?\u201d voice. Turns out it was a reporter from CNN who was writing a story on a cartooning issue. Luckily I had been following the story on a cartoonist blog site, so I was able to give a semi-informed opinion and point her toward further information. Here are some links.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The actual story: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/02\/19\/chimp.cartoon.react\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/02\/19\/chimp.cartoon.react\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The original thread on DailyCartoonist.com (my comment #65): <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/18\/delonas-cartoon-proves-racially-questionable\/\">http:\/\/dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/18\/delonas-cartoon-proves-racially-questionable\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A follow up thread on DailyCartoonist.com (my comment # 4): <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/19\/delanos-chimp-cartoon-goes-viral\/\">http:\/\/dailycartoonist.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/19\/delanos-chimp-cartoon-goes-viral\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interesting (and scary) how interconnected the world is so that (1) my name would come up as a reasonable person to talk with about a national issue, (2) that the flames of the blogosphere can burn so many so quickly, and (3) that this is already very old news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was working yesterday morning when my cell phone rang around 10:00. I didn\u2019t recognize the area code and debated whether to answer but did using my best \u201care you a telemarketer?\u201d voice. Turns out it was a reporter from CNN who was writing a story on a cartooning issue. Luckily I had been following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","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=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}