{"id":9073,"date":"2010-08-17T10:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9073"},"modified":"2010-08-17T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T15:53:13","slug":"stolen-pixels-221-after-curfew-episode-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9073","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #221: After Curfew, Episode 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7997-Stolen-Pixels-221-After-Curfew-Episode-9\">Dr. Breen is back<\/a>!  I gave After Curfew  a break after the big <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7551-Stolen-Pixels-194-After-Curfew-Episode-8\">seven part series<\/a> leading up to strip #200, but I think it&#8217;s time for another.  <\/p>\n<p>What gets me: As of the first 9 comments <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/forums\/read\/6.226199-Stolen-Pixels-221-After-Curfew-Episode-9\">at the the Escapist<\/a>,  it was obvious that 3 of them didn&#8217;t read the side text. I always knew this was probably the case, but I didn&#8217;t want to <em>know<\/em>, if you see what I&#8217;m saying. I&#8217;ve come to accept that a good portion of the coming generation are a <tt>bnch of txt spk-ing lzrs<\/tt>, but have we really come to the point where 1 in 3 human beings will look at this:<\/p>\n<p><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/tl-dr.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='tl-dr.jpg' title='tl-dr.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and say, &#8220;Oh man. No way am I going to read that <em>whole thing<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sadness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Breen is back! I gave After Curfew a break after the big seven part series leading up to strip #200, but I think it&#8217;s time for another. What gets me: As of the first 9 comments at the the Escapist, it was obvious that 3 of them didn&#8217;t read the side text. I always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073","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=9073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}