{"id":1717,"date":"2014-04-13T22:42:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T22:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2015-05-12T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:59:12","slug":"missing-old-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/13\/missing-old-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing old friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/calvinandhobbes\/1995\/12\/31#.U0sPGvldWxQ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1718\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/13\/missing-old-friends\/clv1231c\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ch951231.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,624\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;clv1231c&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Calvin &amp;#038; Hobbes last strip\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ch951231.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ch951231.jpg\" alt=\"Calvin &amp; Hobbes last strip\" width=\"900\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ch951231.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ch951231-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I knew Calvin &amp; Hobbes when they were printed in Portugal for the first time by the newspaper P\u00fablico. My father bought it every day and I read religiously every strip until one day I grew out of it.<\/p>\n<p>My 20&#8217;s had that effect in me, I left behind some of the best things I had as a kid&#8230; Fortunately, when I entered my 30&#8217;s, I went back and started to pick up all those pieces again. Calvin and Hobbes were like two friends for me, and while it saddens me a lot, not being there in those last strips, I was glad I actually read the last when it came out.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with 35, I&#8217;m reading all Calvin &amp; Hobbes strips, not only to see what I&#8217;ve missed but also that one day, my kids can welcome the feisty 6-year-old kid and his pet tiger in their lives, as I did.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, if you are a Calvin &amp; Hobbes fan, you might want to check out this documentary, Dear Mr. Watterson. It won&#8217;t let you down.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KtmV7-f_j7Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I knew Calvin &amp; Hobbes when they were printed in Portugal for the first time by the newspaper P\u00fablico. My father bought it every day and I read religiously every strip until one day I grew out of it. My 20&#8217;s had that effect in me, I left behind some of the best things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[284,313,11],"tags":[373,375],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies-personal","category-personal","tag-calvin-hobbes","tag-dear-mr-watterson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}