{"id":46846,"date":"2019-08-04T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46846"},"modified":"2019-08-04T05:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T09:36:26","slug":"46-substitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=46846","title":{"rendered":"#46 Substitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><image src=\"images\/cb46.jpg\" max-width=\"100%\" style=\"margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:block\"\/><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bubblehead\" src=\"images\/cb_shamus.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"bubble speech\">Characters are like underpants: Some people spend a lot of time worrying about how they look, even though others rarely see them. Also, you should never share them.<\/div>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shawn Says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d ramble about the recycled art in this one (panels 4 and 6), but I am very sleepy at the moment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dmnotes\">Edit 2019: This is yet another variant of the classic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_and_the_Dread_Gazebo\">Eric vs the Dread Gazebo<\/a> story. Remember, if the joke you&#8217;re using is famous enough then it&#8217;s not theft, but homage. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the story below is a 100% true thing that happened to me sometime around 1981.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"script\">INT &#8211; Mom&#8217;s Car &#8211; Summer Day in Butler<\/p>\n<p><em>Mom is driving Shamus and Patrick past the Veterans Hospital. Shamus is about 10 years old and Pat is about 8.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mom: <em>(Nodding towards the hospital.)<\/em> Looks like they finished building the gazebo.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick: Who built it?<\/p>\n<p>Mom: The veterans. Someone decided it would be a good thing for the patients so have a project, so they built that gazebo.<\/p>\n<p>Shamus: <em>(Looking at all the many cars in the parking lot.)<\/em> Which one is the gazebo?\n<\/div>\n<p>They still tease me about this from time to time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46846"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47642,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46846\/revisions\/47642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}