{"id":5821,"date":"2008-02-14T11:46:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T18:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/14\/5821\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T18:46:28","slug":"get-off-john-ks-lawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5821","title":{"rendered":"Get Off John K&#8217;s Lawn!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B000AOEMUA%26tag=ghosthouse01-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B000AOEMUA%253FSubscriptionId=1N9AHEAQ2F6SVD97BE02\" title=\"Click and drag this image to the post editor\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/31VXEEMJP4L.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a>John K is the creator of Ren &amp; Stimpy.  He has a blog where he laments the downfall of animation and therefore of western civilization.  He&#8217;s getting old&#8230; or maybe he was always like that.<\/p>\n<p>A recent post has been cracking me up, where he <a href=\"http:\/\/johnkstuff.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/yogi-bear-as-metaphor-for-what-happened.html%3Cbr%3E%3C\/A%3E\">uses Yogi the Bear merch as a metaphor for the decline of culture<\/a>.  I know what his point is supposed to be, but his examples are ridiculous and just make him seem out-of-touch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true, the merch was better in the 1960&#8217;s&#8230; but that style looks scary and weird now.  Actually it scared me when I got things like that as hand-me-downs as a child in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the sort of obvious reason Yogi doesn&#8217;t have good merch now is because he is no longer a 1st-tier character.  Look at the insane merch for Spongebob Squarepants and you will see what I mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John K is the creator of Ren &amp; Stimpy. He has a blog where he laments the downfall of animation and therefore of western civilization. He&#8217;s getting old&#8230; or maybe he was always like that. A recent post has been cracking me up, where he uses Yogi the Bear merch as a metaphor for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}