{"id":10162,"date":"2012-10-19T06:05:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=10162"},"modified":"2019-11-25T22:08:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T03:08:19","slug":"sweet-sixteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/10\/19\/sweet-sixteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Sixteen"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>16 years ago, Tina and I tied the knot all nice and legal. As is our custom, we exchange cards that we make ourselves. This is mine to her.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Once again, I didn’t have a rock-solid idea of what I was going to do. I let my pencil do the walking. Cosmic, Maaaannnnnn<\/strong><\/a> was going to make another return, but that would have been lazy, and my idea was terrible.<\/p>\n

All I could think about was the Boomtown Rats.<\/strong> Sweet Sixteen, ain’t that peachy keen?<\/em> Yeah, real romantic! Right?<\/p>\n

The girl above was drawn in a small sketchbook while riding back and forth on the Market-Frankford El.<\/strong> This is the third version of her. She was fun so I decided to throw my ditzy d\u00c3\u00a9butante into the card.<\/p>\n

Hey,<\/em> these things don’t always make sense!<\/p>\n

Happy anniversary, Tina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

16 years ago, Tina and I tied the knot all nice and legal. As is our custom, we exchange cards that we make ourselves. This is mine to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[17,8,2028,27,3664,43,3661,5,66,3663,25],"class_list":["post-10162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","tag-cartoon","tag-cartoons","tag-debutante","tag-digital-illustration","tag-drawer-cards","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-photoshop","tag-sketch","tag-sketchbook"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-2DU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43957,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/10\/19\/amethysts-and-orchids\/","url_meta":{"origin":10162,"position":0},"title":"Amethysts and Orchids","author":"Joe","date":"October 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In the event of birthdays, anniversaries and a few other holidays, Tina and I exchange cards we make for one another.","rel":"","context":"In "Drawer Cards"","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/JW-28TH-ANNIVERSARY.jpg?fit=850%2C850&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42532,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/02\/14\/its-lent-you-know\/","url_meta":{"origin":10162,"position":1},"title":"It’s Lent, you know!","author":"Joe","date":"February 14, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Tina and I exchange cards we make ourselves rather than go on a mad dash for that elusive perfect gift or trying to get reservations on the worst restaurant night of the year. 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