{"id":1712,"date":"2003-09-09T04:44:21","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T18:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/09\/opus-is-back\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:34:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:34:40","slug":"opus-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/09\/opus-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Opus is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Penguins\" src=\"http:\/\/djwudi.typepad.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/graphics\/penguins.gif\" width=\"152\" height=\"98\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(This picture has nothing to do with the story aside from the fact that it&#8217;s penguins, I&#8217;ve been looking for an excuse to use it, and it cracks me up. Anyway&#8230;)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  After eight years away from newspapers, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is creating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A45450-2003Sep8.html\" title=\"Opus the Penguin Back In the Funny Business\">a new comic strip called &#8220;Opus,&#8221;<\/a> starring his beloved penguin of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>  The Washington Post Writers Group, which will syndicate the strip, is expected to officially announce Breathed&#8217;s return this Sunday. The reclusive Breathed, who rarely gives interviews, could not be reached yesterday for comment.<\/p>\n<p>  The new strip will appear on Sundays in The Washington Post starting Nov.\u00a023.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/09\/09\/130225\" title=\"\/.: Berkeley Breathed Back in the Funnies\">\/.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After eight years away from newspapers, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is creating a new comic strip called &#8216;Opus,&#8217; starring his beloved penguin of the same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}