{"id":375,"date":"2010-10-19T08:32:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T13:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/10\/19\/101019_caricature\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T20:01:28","slug":"101019_caricature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/10\/19\/101019_caricature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers of Having Gifted Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norman Johnson is a local cartoonist, illustrator, and artist. His work is familiar to most folks in the Midland\/Odessa area, whether or not they know its source. Norman is also a gifted caricaturist, and his friends (or, as he would put it, his rapidly-dwindling supply of friends) are frequent subjects. Debbie and I (and even other family members) have fallen into his artistic cross hairs on more than one occasion; below is an example of one he sent me last night.<\/p>\n

\"Caricature:<\/div>\n

While I must protest certain inaccuracies in this image – I haven’t ridden a conventional bicycle in more than a decade, being now of the recumbent persuasion, and toe-clips are soooo 1998 – I do appreciate Norman’s generosity in providing me with more hair than is strictly realistic. I’m still trying to figure out the Aqua Velva in the water bottle, though.<\/p>\n

Don’t be surprised if parts of this eventually appear as my Facebook profile picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norman Johnson is a local cartoonist, illustrator, and artist. His work is familiar to most folks in the Midland\/Odessa area, whether or not they know its source. Norman is also a gifted caricaturist, and his friends (or, as he would put it, his rapidly-dwindling supply of friends) are frequent subjects. Debbie and I (and even… Continue reading The Dangers of Having Gifted Friends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}