{"id":3791,"date":"2010-06-29T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3791"},"modified":"2010-06-29T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T17:00:00","slug":"splat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=3791","title":{"rendered":"Splat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3797\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stern_handouts3.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3797\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3797\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/stern_handouts3.jpg?resize=206%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stern Writing Workshop Handouts<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0827856\/\">Stewart Stern<\/a>, <em>Rebel Without a Cause<\/em> and <em>The Ugly American<\/em> screenwriter, now 88, uses \u201csplat\u201d (inspired by this Feiffer strip) regularly to describe any obstacle in life.\u00a0Stern: &#8220;Our lives are made of Splats, and our personalities are shaped by the way we go through Splat.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A documentary on\u00a0his life is even titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0445975\/\">Going Through Splat<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stern\u00a0does a writing workshop where he gives you a starting line and you continue it, writing whatever pops into your head.\u00a0Starting lines include: \u201cThe secret about me\/myself that might come out if I confront Splat are\u2026\u201d or (my favorite) \u201cNow, as I plunge into the vortex of Splat, the burning core of all of my hopes and dreams, I see, hear, taste and feel\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Stern, Rebel Without a Cause and The Ugly American screenwriter, now 88, uses \u201csplat\u201d (inspired by this Feiffer strip) regularly to describe any obstacle in life.\u00a0Stern: &#8220;Our lives are made of Splats, and our personalities are shaped by the way we go through Splat.&#8221;\u00a0 A documentary on\u00a0his life is even titled Going Through Splat.\u00a0\u00a0 Stern\u00a0does a writing workshop where he gives you a starting line and you continue it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[264,724,1237],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comics-enriched-their-lives","tag-feiffer","tag-stewart-stern"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}