{"id":536,"date":"2008-01-10T11:28:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/10\/happy_birthday_tintin.html"},"modified":"2010-01-09T17:53:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T01:53:28","slug":"happy_birthday_tintin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/10\/happy_birthday_tintin.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Tintin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I even have a balloon.<BR><BR><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/2173828101\/\" title=\"Outside the Tintin Shop, London, October 21, 1995 by btmeacham, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2173\/2173828101_6c7dcaabe8_b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"735\" alt=\"Outside the Tintin Shop, London, October 21, 1995\" \/><\/a><BR><BR>I was looking through old photos last weekend (it seemed like a rainy weekend activity) and found this gem from my semester abroad in Cambridge my junior year in college.  I think I was coerced into holding the balloon, which explains the odd face.  Anyway, it&#8217;s perfect timing, as today is the day in 1929 when Tintin first appeared in print.  By his 80th next year, the Spielberg\/Jackson movie juggernaut will certainly be rolling along, so this will probably be the last anniversary not covered in America, I&#8217;d guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I even have a balloon.I was looking through old photos last weekend (it seemed like a rainy weekend activity) and found this gem from my semester abroad in Cambridge my junior year in college. I think I was coerced into holding the balloon, which explains the odd face. Anyway, it&#8217;s perfect timing, as today is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nostalgia","category-photos","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1977,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/1977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}