{"id":41806,"date":"2013-10-26T16:53:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T16:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kateoplis-because-of-wattersons-decision-to\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:58:08","slug":"kateoplis-because-of-wattersons-decision-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kateoplis-because-of-wattersons-decision-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-41806 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/kateoplis-because-of-wattersons-decision-to\/attachment\/41808\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mva3asBi6D1qzprlbo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kateoplis.tumblr.com\/post\/65133203523\/because-of-wattersons-decision-to-avoid-endless\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">kateoplis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Because of\u00a0Watterson\u2019s decision to avoid endless merchandising of his characters, we can only get our\u00a0<em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em>\u00a0fix by digging out our books. We\u2019re not saturated with Calvin and Hobbes in commercials or on toy shelves or at theme parks and that helps to keep the strip intact. It isn\u2019t watered down, longtime fans still crave it, and new readers will always be introduced to the characters in their original, intended medium. Watterson has said it before, and stated the same idea again more recently: \u2018<em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em>\u00a0was designed to be a comic strip and that\u2019s all I want it to be. It\u2019s the one place where everything works the way I intend it to.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/video\/archive\/2013\/10\/how-i-calvin-and-hobbes-i-inspired-a-generation\/280867\/\"><strong>deaR MR. Watterson, out on Nov.15th<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kateoplis: &ldquo;Because of\u00a0Watterson\u2019s decision to avoid endless merchandising of his characters, we can only get our\u00a0Calvin and Hobbes\u00a0fix by digging out our books. We\u2019re not saturated with Calvin and Hobbes in commercials or on toy shelves or at theme parks and that helps to keep the strip intact. It isn\u2019t watered down, longtime fans still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-41806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-aSi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41806","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=41806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41810,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41806\/revisions\/41810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}