{"id":24709,"date":"2011-11-10T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thenearsightedmonkey-i-was-a-kid-growing-up-in\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:19:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:19:32","slug":"thenearsightedmonkey-i-was-a-kid-growing-up-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thenearsightedmonkey-i-was-a-kid-growing-up-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com\/post\/12565479495\/i-was-a-kid-growing-up-in-a-troubled-household-we\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">thenearsightedmonkey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was a kid growing up in a troubled household. We didn\u2019t have books in the house but we did have the daily paper and I remember picking out Family Circus before I could really read.<\/p>\n<p> There was something about the life on the other side of that circle that looked pretty good.\u00a0 For kids like me there was a map and a compass hidden in Family Circus. The parents in that comic strip really loved their children. Their home was stable. It put that image in my head and I kept it.<\/p>\n<p> I\u2019d always heard that great art will cause people to burst into tears but the only time it ever happened to me was when I was introduced to Bil Keane\u2019s son, Jeff. \u00a0As soon as I shook his hand I just started bawling my face off because I realized\u00a0 I had climbed through the circle. <\/p>\n<p>And how I did it was by making pictures and writing stories.<\/p>\n<p>I am so very sad to know Bill Keane has died. To me the Family Circus is my family. They are my soul family in the image world. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why if you say a word against Family Circus to me I will slug you so hard. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com\/\">http:\/\/thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thenearsightedmonkey: I was a kid growing up in a troubled household. We didn\u2019t have books in the house but we did have the daily paper and I remember picking out Family Circus before I could really read. There was something about the life on the other side of that circle that looked pretty good.\u00a0 For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6qx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24710,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24709\/revisions\/24710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}