{"id":270,"date":"2009-08-26T02:50:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T07:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=270"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:54:38","slug":"origins-of-the-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/26\/origins-of-the-species\/","title":{"rendered":"More Origins of the Species"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1988<\/p>\n

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Monkey before Bird. A sketchbook sketch in pencil from February of 1988.<\/p>\n

Be on the look out for Monkey & Bird <\/strong>coming soon to CO2 Comics!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monkey before Bird. A sketchbook sketch in pencil from February of 1988. Be on the look out for Monkey & Bird coming soon to CO2 Comics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[53,16],"tags":[12,5,3666,3660],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monkey-bird","category-sketch","tag-co2-comics","tag-joe-williams","tag-monkey-bird","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1577,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/08\/13\/dont-panic-monkey-bird-continues\/","url_meta":{"origin":270,"position":0},"title":"Don’t PANIC!!! 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