{"id":290,"date":"2009-08-28T03:20:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T08:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=290"},"modified":"2019-11-25T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T20:54:39","slug":"origin-of-the-species-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/28\/origin-of-the-species-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin of the Species Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baby<\/p>\n

This was the announcement we sent out to friends and family when Tina was expecting the arrival of what turned out to be our son Lloyd.<\/p>\n

The design of Monkey & Bird<\/strong> has come quite a way since their first appearance, but the chimp is still sort of rough and the bird is no where near as elegant as she is now. Looks like Monkey has been using Grecian Formula<\/em> since his appearance here, and Bird is a lot less frumpy.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more details about Monkey & Bird<\/strong> soon to premier at CO2 Comics!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was the announcement we sent out to friends and family when Tina was expecting the arrival of what turned out to be our son Lloyd. The design of Monkey & Bird has come quite a way since their first … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":[18,53],"tags":[12,27,3664,5,6,3660],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","category-monkey-bird","tag-co2-comics","tag-digital-illustration","tag-drawer-cards","tag-joe-williams","tag-tina-garceau","tag-willceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":261,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2009\/08\/25\/origin-of-the-species\/","url_meta":{"origin":290,"position":0},"title":"Origin of the Species","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the first appearance of the dynamic duo known as Monkey & Bird who will soon debut in comic strip form at CO2 Comics. 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