{"id":8602,"date":"2011-02-11T15:50:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=8602"},"modified":"2011-02-11T15:50:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:50:02","slug":"garf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=8602","title":{"rendered":"Garf!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thumbing through my collection of <em>Cartoonist Profiles<\/em> looking for tips on Hi-Fi stereo equipment, as I am prone to do, I stumbled over this buff nug from issue #40, 1978: An early (the earliest?) story on Jim Davis and &#8220;Garfield&#8221;. I audibly exclaimed, thanked my Johnny Harts and put down my Frank Robbins and ran to the scanner. Here, kind people, is an early testament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garfield001.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8603\" title=\"garfield001\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garfield001.jpg?resize=217%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garfield002.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8604\" title=\"garfield002\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garfield002.jpg?resize=225%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garfield003.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8605\" title=\"garfield003\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garfield003.jpg?resize=231%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garfield004.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8606\" title=\"garfield004\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/comicscomicsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/garfield004.jpg?resize=223%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thumbing through my collection of Cartoonist Profiles looking for tips on Hi-Fi stereo equipment, as I am prone to do, I stumbled over this buff nug from issue #40, 1978: An early (the earliest?) story on Jim Davis and &#8220;Garfield&#8221;. I audibly exclaimed, thanked my Johnny Harts and put down my Frank Robbins and ran to the scanner. Here, kind people, is an early testament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[474,656],"class_list":["post-8602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-garfield","tag-jim-davis"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}