{"id":244,"date":"2009-08-21T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=244"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:54:37","slug":"the-reading-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/21\/the-reading-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reading Room or Seeing a Man About a Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I sent this as a Thank You<\/em> card to the art director and editor of the Boulder Weekly<\/strong><\/em><\/a> after I was commissioned to do the cover of that newspaper’s Best of Boulder<\/strong> 2004 edition which can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

People don’t believe me, but the toilet in the cartoon is modeled after our own. Yes, we have a lavender toilet. So do our neighbors. It is South Philly after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sent this as a Thank You card to the art director and editor of the Boulder Weekly after I was commissioned to do the cover of that newspaper’s Best of Boulder 2004 edition which can be seen here. 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